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Margo, shown Aug. 5, 2015, is available for adopting through PAWS Chicago.

Chicago-area pet shelters participating in nationwide adoption event

August 18, 2019 at 8:13 p.m.

Looking to adopt a pet? Next weekend will be prime time. Nearly 30 Chicago-area animal shelters are participating in Clear the Shelters, a nationwide push Aug. 15 to encourage a...

A man rides a bicycle Aug. 8, 2012, along a path on Chicago's Northerly Island.

Adult camp-in planned for Northerly Island

May 22, 2019 at 8:29 p.m.

Chicago's first adults-only camp-in is coming to Northerly Island this month. But if you're interested, it'll cost you. The entrance fee is priced by tent, which is included. A two-person...

Swarms of dragonflies near Belmont Harbor on Aug. 3, 2015, are attributed to an especially wet June.

A swarming spectacle: Rains bring boom year for lakefront dragonflies

May 22, 2019 at 8:29 p.m.

If you haven't visited the lakefront recently, you wouldn't have noticed them whizzing east of Lake Shore Drive or darting around the docks. But cut through the green grass and...

Chicago-area farm creates Blackhawks corn maze as tribute to Stanley Cup win

May 22, 2019 at 8:24 p.m.

Right now, the Chicago skyline is growing in a field of corn. So are a Blackhawks logo, two hockey players and the word "champions" — all part of George Richardson's...

Disability act marked turnaround 25 years ago, but work to be done

May 22, 2019 at 8:24 p.m.

Life can change in a second. Marca Bristo knows that. Her second happened in 1977. The then-23-year-old world traveler and career woman inhaled deeply as she watched the waves on...

Semajay Thomas spars at JABB Boxing in Chicago on June 29, 2011.

Boxer, cleared of murder in 2010, faces beating charges: ‘Very out of character for him’

May 22, 2019 at 8:21 p.m.

A professional boxer who made headlines five years ago when he was acquitted of murder has been arrested in connection with a beating over the Fourth of July weekend. Semajay...

A peregrine falcon screeches from a perch above the University Club of Chicago, on Monroe Street at South Michigan Avenue on July 1, 2014.

From doom to boom: Illinois peregrine falcons no longer threatened

August 18, 2019 at 8:01 p.m.

Talons clenched, eyes locked on prey, a peregrine falcon looks almost peaceful as it leans forward, relaxes and drops into a 200-mph dive for dinner. It is the fastest known...

Fans in Lincoln Park celebrate a goal as the U.S. women's national team plays Japan.

Fans revel in U.S. women’s soccer team’s ‘unbelievable’ victory

May 22, 2019 at 8:18 p.m.

Concentrated quiet turned to crazed screams in Lincoln Park on Sunday night as thousands watched the U.S. women's national team score two goals on Japan within the first few minutes...

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