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Our yard featured in Chicago Tribune article about monarch butterflies and Field Museum research

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Our garden is featured in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune—both online and in print: On a suburban street with smooth lawns and trimmed bushes, Martha Chiplis’ yard stands out. It’s not just the wildflowers: purple wild petunia, golden lanceleaf coreopsis, hot-pink Bush’s poppy mallow. It’s the lemon-yellow goldfinches that snack on the seeds, the fluffy bees that … Read more

Why “Chicagoland”

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WBEZ’s Curious City looks into “Chicagoland,” the term, its origins, purpose, and definition—its boundaries. Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. “Colonel” McCormick commissioned James O’Donnell Bennett to write a series of Chicago region travel articles. That’s how the word made its first appearance nearly 100 years ago in the July 27, 1926 edition of the Chicago Tribune. … Read more

Open Cup Evangelist Peter Wilt Goes Home Again with Chicago House

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Open Cup Evangelist Peter Wilt Goes Home Again with Chicago House Wilt led the then-brand new Chicago Fire to four Open Cup titles between 1998 and 2006. And he’ll now face off with that very club he helped birth in the tournament he loves best. His new project, the all-amateur Chicago House AC, are making … Read more

What happens when an activist accuses a Tribune reporter of being a police spy

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What happens when an activist accuses a Tribune reporter of being a police spy “Peter Nickeas is a Tribune reporter recently accused of informing on protesters to the police. Monica Trinidad is the activist who publicly accused him. Jerry Boyle is the Chicago attorney who put the idea in her head. And I’m the media … Read more