There’s no beat, no lyrics. You can’t dance to it. But cicada music is the coolest music you know
You can’t dance to it, and there is no melody nor any lyrics. But the...
Pets and Animals
With extensive planning — and treats — 2,500 show dogs ventured by plane and car to New York for the Westminster show
Getting a pooch to the show requires extensive organizing by owners and handlers, who plan...
Miniature poodle named Sage wins Westminster Kennel Club dog show
A miniature poodle named Sage won the top prize Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel...
Westminster dog show has its first mixed-breed agility winner, and her name is Nimble
A border collie-papillion mix aptly named Nimble outran and outmaneuvered 50 other finalists to seize...
At Westminster dog show, a display of dogs and devotion
For all the pooch pageantry of Westminster — the coiffed poodles, the top-knotted toy dogs,...
Longtime Oak Forest volunteer’s name lives on at animal agency where she helped
Longtime Oak Forest volunteer Laura Gray died at 62 in February. Less than two months...
Have you met Chicago’s Bug Girl? Janelle Iaccino wants to enlighten the city on the greatness of the creepy, crawly things
Pest control specialist Janelle Iaccino uses her knowledge to educate the next generation of scientists...
Chicago’s famous piping plover Imani has returned to Montrose Beach for the summer
The Great Lakes piping plover population, which reached an all-time low of 13 pairs in...
![The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts of Chicagoans. The stretch of the lakefront, now dubbed the Monty and Rose Wildlife Habitat, is part of a 3.1-acre expansion of the protected land in Lincoln Park. The Park District’s Board of Commissioners voted on the name Wednesday, which fittingly coincided on Valentine’s Day. Monty and Rose achieved local celebrity status in 2019 when they became the first of their endangered species to raise a […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ctc-monty-rose-CT0134312644.jpg?w=140 "The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts of Chicagoans. The stretch of the lakefront, now dubbed the Monty and Rose Wildlife Habitat, is part of a 3.1-acre expansion of the protected land in Lincoln Park. The Park District’s Board of Commissioners voted on the name Wednesday, which fittingly coincided on Valentine’s Day. Monty and Rose achieved local celebrity status in 2019 when they became the first of their endangered species to raise a […]")
Park District names part of Montrose Beach after beloved piping plovers Monty and Rose
The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes...
PAWS Tinley Park still a month away from reopening after January fire
PAWS Tinley Park remains closed after a fire in January though pet adoptions are still...