Outdoors
On Saturday, volunteers turned LaGrange Park Woods into a natural “rage room,” snapping, sawing and burning invasive buckthorn threatening the area.
Our top 10 stories run the gamut from a huge walleye to a site change for IHSA bass fishing to piping plovers.
The walleye weighed in at 14.3 pounds on a certified scale.
Raya Reddy’s Chinook at 31st draws a crowd, Scott Richard Holm’s O’Hare buck photo, the Stray Cast and an update on navigating the Fox Chain O’Lakes are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
After a nearly 30-year run delighting readers at the Sun-Times, it’s time to say goodbye.
Two projects by Naperville-based The Conservation Foundation — Dayton Bluffs Preserve and Belrose Farm — on the lower Fox River give a strong glimpse of the past and the future.
That and a lakefront eagle, downtown big northern pike and personal best smallmouth bass on the same day and more are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
The last week or so brought sharp reminders of the wonder of Chicago fishing in the fall — from the big ones to the odd ones to the beautiful surprises.
A vulture in Homewood, a rare sighting of a bald eagle on the lakefront, wild turkeys in Frankfort and the Stray Cast are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will have all its northern sites stocked with rainbow trout in time for the opener, Saturday, Oct. 18.
There are some tweaks and more details on fishing the north side of Navy Pier this winter since the opening of Navy Pier Marina earlier this year.
With nearly 80 species thriving in the Chicago River, people are landing catches of up to 35 pounds smack in the middle of one of Downtown’s most-visited tourist destinations.
Turning old railway right-of-ways into recreational trails is a story stretching past 60 years and “From Rails to Trails” captures the political (bipartisan) nature of nationwide movement.
A photo of a beautiful buck brings a reminder of the rut nearing, Illinois trout season opens on Oct. 18 but stocking is delayed and a big freshwater drum earning Fish of the Week honors are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
It’s time for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to adjust to climate change and move fall trout dates later. Illinois’ trout season will open as scheduled on Oct. 18, but stocking will be delayed because of the hot fall.
A wonderful time of birding and wandering around a milk run of birding sites around the Palos area came together a week ago with Joel Greenberg and Tom Schrader.
Paul Vriend’s photo of a northern flicker in flight, a tale of a Chinook salmon caught while sailing and, as requested, the return of the Stray Cast are among the notes from around the Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Winter perch fishing will go on as it has for decades at Navy Pier with working around the Navy Pier Marina, which opened earlier this year.
Along the way, Peter Frank said he has faced several issues after basically being outside “24/7 for 15 straight months,” but made time to call his mom almost every day.
Erik Brztowski led a fulfilling day and night chasing lake sturgeon on the Wisconsin River. It ended with not only my personal-best sturgeon, but my PB freshwater fish, as well.
Changes coming for the Chicago Fishing Advisory Committee, Jeff Banks finding buckeyes, Moe Perez with a classic fall mushroom in Humboldt Park and John Krizek catching and releasing a big lake sturgeon at the Wisconsin Dells are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.