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Lots of coyotes are out and about in Chicago and its suburbs, and experts say there’s no cause for alarm.
Coyotes have been spotted along the Magnificent Mile, in the Streeterville neighborhood, in the Montrose Beach Dunes, on frozen water in Humboldt Park and outside the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in recent weeks.
According to Chris Anchor, a wildlife biologist for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, people are seeing more of the species lately because mating season aptly peaked Feb. 14. Coyotes, who are instinctually territorial, are therefore patrolling their land more often.
“Everybody in the Chicagoland area lives within the territory of a family group of coyotes,” Anchor said.
Read the full story from the Tribune’s Madeline King.
Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day, including: how screws are tightening for immigrant detainees swept up in Operation Midway Blitz, why Illinois lawmakers are pushing a university funding overhaul and the latest Cactus League report from spring training.
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Armed man shot and killed after entering secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, Secret Service says
An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early yesterday morning, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service.
Although Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House when the breach occurred around 1:30 a.m.
Screws tightening for immigrant detainees swept up in Operation Midway Blitz as arrests continue
Many of the most in-your-face signs of Operation Midway Blitz have evaporated from public life in Chicago. There’s no more tear gas or pepper balls in the streets. The Broadview processing center that saw so much chaos still draws protests and demonstrations, but last week, a religious group reported that just four people were being held there. U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, who oversaw the height of the operation, hasn’t been seen in Chicago in months.
Yet immigration enforcement continues in and around the city. And the battles that started on residential streets during the fall are still wearing on in courtrooms and detention centers from Wisconsin to Indiana to Texas.
‘Wrong in 1942. Wrong now.’ Local Japanese Americans tie WWII incarceration to Trump’s immigration crackdown
Born the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Toshiko “Tonko” Doi of Chicago was just a baby when she and her family were forced into Japanese incarceration camps by the United States government, spending the earliest years of her life in confinement.
Her father was a Japanese immigrant. Her mother was a U.S. citizen.
Illinois lawmakers push university funding overhaul amid regional enrollment drops and U. of I. opposition
With enrollment plunging at many of Illinois’ regional universities, state leaders are again pressing a sweeping overhaul of higher education funding — one that would steer more money to smaller campuses despite firm opposition from the state’s flagship system, the University of Illinois.
Dozens attend dance-filled celebration for young dancer killed in Bishop Ford crash
Nearly a hundred people attended a vigil at a South Side elementary school for the 17-year-old dancer who was killed in a car accident early Thursday morning.
Records show Thornton Fractional District 215 previously investigated teachers charged in sexual assault
Records show Thornton Fractional High School District 215 began investigating a former teacher and wrestling coach more than a year before he was charged with sexual assault of high school students.
Arlington Heights? Hammond? Chicago Bears could join 10 NFL franchises who left namesake cities for suburbs.
The Arlington Cowboys. East Rutherford Giants and Jets. Inglewood Rams and Chargers. And maybe the Hammond Bears.
Ten NFL teams don’t play in their namesake cities but in their suburbs. If the Chicago Bears go through with one of their proposals for a new stadium — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker acknowledged Friday that the team’s next home is unlikely to rise within Chicago’s city limits — they could wind up in northwest suburban Arlington Heights or just across the Indiana border in Hammond.
Cactus League report: White Sox’s Sam Antonacci makes an impression before heading to the WBC
After playing against each other Friday in the Cactus League opener, White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami and Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki will become teammates this week in Japan.
WWE’s ‘Elimination Chamber’ is coming to the United Center — and wrestling fans have been waiting
World Wrestling Entertainment returns to Chicago later this week for one of the biggest events in the professional wrestling calendar as “Elimination Chamber” takes over the United Center.
Rob Reiner’s son returns to court, may enter plea in the killing of his parents
Nick Reiner may finally enter a plea today in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, after two previous court hearings that brought some drama but little practical progress in the case.
Reiner is set to appear in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for his arraignment on two counts of first-degree murder with his new attorney Kimberly Greene, a public defender.
