Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 19, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

Piping Plover females are the first to leave the Great Lakes and head south, leaving dad to finish raising the chicks.

You’d walk right by a piping plover if it stayed perfectly still. The birds are tiny, perhaps the size of a sparrow, and colored to blend in with the sand and tidal mud flats they call home. Protect ...

Piping plovers have made a remarkable recovery in Massachusetts. But the tiny, threatened shorebird is declining in other ...

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

The three new piping plover chicks born at Montrose Beach have been named in true Chicago fashion: Bean, El and Ferris. Bean is named after the Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially called “The Bean,” in ...

This year, the names represent iconic Chicago landmarks woven into the city’s fabric and known to all visitors of our beloved ...

Some baby birds just hatched at Montrose Beach, and their names are about as Chicago as it gets. Block Club Chicago reporter ...

(WXYZ) — The Detroit Zoo and Griffin Claw Brewing Company have teamed up for a new beer garden inside the zoo. Located across ...

Will Seabrook Beach enact a curfew to combat fireworks, noise, drinking and sex? Residents and officials say visitors are ...

The Griffin Claw Gather Beer Garden opens July 23 at the zoo, across from the African Train Station and near Graze Grill. The ...