Nature
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Excellent storm details on ChicagoTribune.com
Detailed, specific short stories here.
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Winfield Mounds Through the Seasons
My kids and I often go to the Winfield Mounds, a small little nature preserve. Here’s more from the DuPage County Forest Preserve website: Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve once was the home to various pre-historic Native Americans who dwelled along the West Branch of the DuPage River. They lived a simple hunter-gatherer lifestyle, made possible…
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Alfred Caldwell Lilly Pool
One of my favorite places in Chicago is the Alfred Caldwell Lilly Pool. It’s one of those hidden, thankfully under-appreciated places where you can go and forget you’re in the third largest city in the country. Forgot you’re next to a zoo. Forgot you’re a block away from a highway. Here’s from the city website:…
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Winfield Mounds– Drainage Pipe Under Winfield Road
Winfield Mounds– Drainage Pipe Under Winfield Road, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Exploring with the kids. Always the lure of the drainage pipe– danger, transportation, stealth.
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Chicago Microburst?
Downed Branch Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Yesterday we had a short, violent storm circa 2:30 PM on the north side of Chicago. From what I’ve heard of descriptions of microbursts, the sudden down-streams of wind, it seems like we had one. There were a lot of overturned garbage cans, roofing material debris, and…