Outdoors
Clyde Swan catching a big northern pike drives home a reminder that May is big-fish month in Illinois.
Experts at the Morton Arboretum say it’s important to protect any trees planted in the past three years with fine mesh netting.
Leading this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report are spring signs on Lake Michigan and inland waters plus the perch closure beginning May 1 on Illinois’ Lake Michigan waters and Wisconsin’s general inland opener coming Saturday.
Tony Farinella Jr. had a good morning opening day of Illinois’ second season for spring turkey in Jo Daviess County.
Dave Strobel caught and released his personal-best walleye Thursday at Heidecke Lake.
Photos of pileated woodpeckers in the Palos area and an eastern milksnake found at Lemont Quarries are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
The appearance of the 17-year cicadas this year will mark the fourth emergence of the red-eyed, orange-veined creatures in my lifetime — thus, my fourth cicada birthday, Scott Fornek, an editor at the Sun-Times, writes.
The crane was captured and relocated by the International Crane Foundation and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
First bison babies of year born at Fermilab: ‘Calving season is the most rewarding time of the year’
Two bison were born Friday at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia. The facility’s 30-acre pasture has long been home to the grazing mammals.
Matt Mullady is known as a Kankakee River expert and former guide, but he has a very important artistic side, too.
Riverside Fishing Club’s Fishing Tackle & Outdoors Swap Meet on Saturday and the continuing North American Vintage Decoy & Sporting Collectibles Show are Go & Show this week.
Stacey Greene-Fenlon became the first woman and first person not connected to Chicago government to chair the Chicago fishing advisory committee on Thursday.
People have spotted nymphs of the 17-year cicadas on the ground. That’s a sign the periodical cicadas are preparing to emerge. They should appear once the soil reaches 64 degrees, which is expected by late May.
Spurts of lakefront salmon and trout along with inland fishing heating up lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.
Ryan Leonard continues a tradition of finding early morel mushrooms in Cook County.
Matt Kopec made sure to collect his turkey, even swimming out to retrieve it.
Plainfield South senior Tim Raducka caught three muskies during the conference bass-fishing tournament.
Teri family finding a shed antler and bagging a turkey during the second weekend of youth turkey season and a record turkey harvest during Illinois’ youth spring turkey seasons are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Chicago No Limits Fishing provides boating and fishing experiences around downtown on Lake Michigan and the Chicago River.
The North American Decoys & Sporting Collectibles Show opens Tuesday and runs through April 27 while the One Earth Film Festival is going at varied sites through Tuesday, April 23.