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A photo op with a suburban pair of bald eagles and a question on Osage orange at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

You don’t need bars. You just need good social atmospheres that fit your personality.

Avoid shopping or important decisions from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Chicago time. After that, the moon moves from Scorpio into Sagittarius.

Sunday is the final day for the Wintrust Winterland at Gallagher Way, which offers ice skating, ice bumper cars and other activities at the Cubs’ ballpark.

Want to watch the Bears in person this weekend? Tickets are still available for Bears at Packers for as low as $142.

Teenagers often seek low-key assistance from officers when they or friends are facing difficulty both in the building and outside the relative safety of their schools, a reader in River North writes.

Previewing Packers-Bears in Week 18 with 5 questions for Bears Wire.

A sandhill crane hanging around past Christmas in Lake County, first Christmas in Park Bait’s 88 years and the question of Christmas 50s or zero are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond,

There’s a bit more ice and mixing in lakers and a few browns with the perch on the lakefront lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

As some Chicagoans reevaluate their drinking this month, they have plenty of options for booze-free beverages and spaces that have popped up in recent years.

A coalition of real estate and development groups filed suit Friday seeking to knock the binding referendum off the ballot, calling it an example of “log-rolling,” a legislative tactic of combining a politically unpopular proposal with popular one so voters will swallow the bitter pill.