Outdoors
The 15-mile stretch of the Bike the Drive route ran from the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry to West Bryn Mawr Avenue. Riders entered at the museum, Grant Park, Bryn Mawr Avenue, Fullerton Avenue and Oakwood Boulevard beginning at 6:30 a.m.
Photographs and images can make seeing the natural world better: From Mark Kasick’s photo of anglers at Cal Park to a viceroy butterfly to a remembered photo (connected to Kasick’s in a way) by Michael Jacobs of an unknown angler casting on the shore of Indiana’s Lake Michigan. Though I love using words.
A praying mantis riding the Brown Line and thoughts and photos on monarchs are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Go & Show this week is the Illinois Mycological Association’s annual show on Sunday, Sept. 1, at Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe.
With dove hunting opening Sunday, Sept. 1, in Illinois, here is the annual check-in on field conditions at select public sites.
Nagamo, the only piping plover chick that survived from a full clutch of eggs hatched in June, was spotted at the beach Wednesday after a few trips around the region this month. Parents Imani and Sea Rocket have already left.
Doves have an evolving place in the natural world around Chicago as dove hunting opens Sunday in Illinois,
Judy, a 24-year-old American bison, suffered from age-related health issues. Bison symbolize survival, hope and endurance for Native American communities, so a ceremonial blessing was offered “to bring [Judy’s] time with us here full circle,” a zoo official said.
The beginning of the fall salmon run on southern Lake Michigan and an overall look at holiday fishing around Chicago lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Philip Jordan caught his first Chicago walleye to earn Fish of the Week and gave a fair assessment of the experience of fishing the Chicago River.
The race, which has been held in the city for 41 years, began in Lake Michigan at Monroe Harbor, weaved up and down Lake Shore Drive and Lower Wacker and ended in the heart of Grant Park.
Jingchen “Tony” Zhu added to his fishing knowledge during his stay in Chicago for college and graduate school; now he is taking it back to China.
A fawn with “the zoomies” in a cemetery, an artful photo of a hummingbird and the moon, and a note on camouflage wipes are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Both in Chicago and Indiana signs came Friday of a few salmon coming to shore.
Wrapping up some youth fishing notes in a back-to-school special; plus a note on monarch butterflies.
Mike Matuk caught an odd northern pike at the end of July that led to questions on silver pike and possibly Furunculosis, all adding up to an odd Fish of the Week.
Nagamo, the only piping plover chick to survive from a full clutch of eggs spawned at Montrose Beach, was seen leaving the area Wednesday, but days later reappeared with their cousin from Waukegan.
Delving into a mystery at the Chicago Maritime Museum of the Black house painter James Bolivar Needham, who did years of distinctive Impressionist paintings of the Chicago River, and the question of what the change of scientific name and split of largemouth bass and Florida bass mean (if anything) for the largemouth bass record in Illinois.