This year, the names represent iconic Chicago landmarks woven into the city’s fabric and known to all visitors of our beloved ...

The three new piping plover chicks born at Montrose Beach have been named in true Chicago fashion: Bean, El and Ferris. Bean is named after the Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially called “The Bean,” in ...

Chicagoans can submit names for three chicks born last month to Imani and Searocket. Submissions should “reflect Chicago’s ...

Piping plovers spotted at Montrose Beach 02:24. It's almost that time of year again when birders flock to Montrose Beach. The peak of migration season is a couple weeks away.

A potentially dangerous phosphorus flare washed up on Montrose Beach this week after a military exercise gone wrong, and the U.S. Coast Guard said three more are still in the water. The Coast ...

MONTROSE BEACH, Illinois (WBBM) — A potentially dangerous phosphorus flare washed up on Montrose Beach this week after a military exercise gone wrong, and the U.S. Coast Guard said three more ...