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Wooden entrance arch of the Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary with a boardwalk trail leading into bare winter trees and tall grass
The way in: Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary on the Chicago lakefront, January. CC0 photo.

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A few wild places near Chicago

A dark swallowtail butterfly feeding on pink swamp milkweed flowers among green leaves
Swamp milkweed and a swallowtail, Indiana Dunes. Public-domain National Park Service photo.
Purple asters and yellow goldenrod blooming together in a fall prairie
Fall asters and goldenrod near the Iron Bridge Trailhead, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. Public-domain USDA Forest Service photo.
A leaf-covered trail running through woods in yellow and orange fall color
Fall trail at Cowles Bog, Indiana Dunes National Park. Public-domain National Park Service photo.

Lurie Garden’s kind of wildflowers, growing wild near Chicago

Bright yellow golden ragwort flowers with a few pale blue phlox blossoms among green leaves
Golden ragwort and blue phlox in spring, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Will County. Public-domain USDA Forest Service photo.
A spike of pale blue and white wild hyacinth flowers rising from prairie grass
Wild hyacinth in bloom, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. Public-domain USDA Forest Service photo.
A wide green prairie with a few pink wildflowers in front and a line of trees on the horizon
Gensburg-Markham Prairie in Markham, Cook County, a National Natural Landmark. CC0 photo by Alanscottwalker.

Photos: public domain or CC0 via Wikimedia Commons (USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region; Alanscottwalker). Taken on prairies south of Chicago, not in the Lurie Garden itself.

Early April at Winfield Mounds

A field of pale, dry winter grass in front of a band of bare, leafless trees under a hazy white sky
Dry prairie grass and bare trees at Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve, DuPage County, Illinois, April 5, 2008. CC BY 2.0 photo by Daniel X. O’Neil (Flickr).
A river running over a low riffle with white water in the foreground, between sandy banks lined with bare trees
The DuPage River at Winfield Mounds, the same morning. CC BY 2.0 photo by Daniel X. O’Neil (Flickr).
A calm river reflecting bare trees and a blue sky, curving between banks of tan grass
A quiet stretch of the DuPage River at Winfield Mounds, the same morning. CC BY 2.0 photo by Daniel X. O’Neil (Flickr).

Photos: CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) by Daniel X. O’Neil via Wikimedia Commons, cropped to 3:2 and resized by ROICP. All three were taken at Winfield Mounds on April 5, 2008; the river drawn behind the contact cards above is a drawing of the same place, not a copy of these photos.

Spring wetland birds at Glenview Airstation Prairie

A small brown-speckled duck with a grey-blue head and a white face crescent resting among broken reed stems in shallow water
Blue-winged teal, Glenview Airstation Prairie, Glenview, Illinois, April 27, 2014. CC BY 2.0 photo by CheepShot (Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons).
A slender grey-brown shorebird with long yellow legs raising its wings on a small mat of floating reeds
Yellowlegs, Glenview Airstation Prairie, Glenview, Illinois, April 27, 2014. CC BY 2.0 photo by CheepShot (Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons).
A brown female mallard walking along a reddish gravel path beside green grass, with several fluffy ducklings in front of her
Mallard hen and ducklings on the grounds of the former Glenview Naval Air Station, Glenview, Illinois, May 27, 2012. CC BY 2.0 photo by CheepShot (Flickr, via Wikimedia Commons).

Photos: CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) by CheepShot via Flickr and Wikimedia Commons, cropped to 3:2 and resized by ROICP. The wetland drawn behind the contact cards above is a drawing of Glenview Airstation Prairie on an April morning, not a copy of these photos.

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