#waukegan

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G thang

[rjzimmerman]

Four piping plovers hatch at Montrose Beach: ‘Never ceases to be amazing’

Imani and Searocket chicks mark a conservation milestone for the endangered birds and continue the legacy of Chicago’s Monty and Rose.

Excerpt from this Chicago Tribune story:

After a dramatic nesting season, Waukegan’s piping plover mates welcomed two chicks.

The first of the “cotton balls with legs” hatched early Sunday morning, with a second following hours later. New parents Blaze and Pepper continue to incubate the remaining two eggs in the nest, the Lake County Audubon Society said in a post on social media.

Blaze and Pepper have been regulars at Waukegan Beach since 2023, nesting together in 2024 and 2025. This year, the former lovers reunited to build a nest just days after a previous clutch laid by Blaze and another mate, Pippin, washed away in a storm. The eggs were recovered by volunteers and rushed to the Lincoln Park Zoo, before being transferred to the Detroit Zoo. All four chicks hatched and are now part of the piping plover captive-rearing program at the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Michigan.

Waukegan’s new chicks follow the birth of four plovers at the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area in June. The Lake County Audubon Society called the births an “extraordinary conservation success” in a social media post.

For years, conservation groups have worked to bring the endangered shorebird back from the brink of extinction. Piping plover populations were nearly wiped out by habitat loss throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, dwindling to fewer than 20 breeding pairs by the 1980s. Thanks to captive breeding programs and local conservation efforts, the birds have made a comeback.

[iheartvelma]

Chicago based paleoartist Tyler Keillor created this life-size model of Dryptosaurus for the Dunn Museum in 2017. The model is considered the first life-size, scientifically accurate, fleshed out model of Dryptosaurus in existence.

Paleoartists collaborate with paleontologists to recreate prehistoric life based on known scientific information.

[railwayhistorical]

Chicago and North Western Commuter “Scoots”

This photograph, from March of 1977, was taken at the north end of C&NW's line to Waukegan, Illinois.

Number 505 is a so-called Crandall Cab, which the railroad ingeniously fabricated from Union Pacific E8Bs and E9Bs.

Image taken by Richard Koenig, from the collection of John Rust.

[a-cosmicwaste]

FUCK I.C.E

FUCK TRUMP

[20th-century-railroading]

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern - Waukegan, IL by d.w.davidson Via Flickr: With Lake Michigan behind, a forlorn view of the engine terminal at EJ&E's South Yard finds a single SW1200 tied up on a Saturday afternoon, in January 1987. The snow covered debris of the former roundhouse is visible to the right of the transfer caboose.

[missing-girls-and-women]

Anne E. Wyatt, 36

Last seen in Waukegan, Illinois in 1987.

[aryburn-trains]

Northbound C&NW "Green Bay 400" streamliner at Waukegan Station heading for Milwaukee and Green Bay. 7/10/1967