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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Dale Bowman

Chicago outdoors in review: Elk, deer rifles, pike, windows/birds, rabbits & quail

Field Museum scientists, from left, Daryl Coldren, Dave Willard and Mary Hennen examine bodies of birds killed in early October during migration at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, leading to the drapes being drawn at night during migration. (Photo by Tom Gnoske)

A young bull elk wandered through northern Illinois in December. His ramble of several hundred miles ended Dec. 13 when hit by a vehicle near I-55 and I-80 near Joliet.

He was the first wild elk confirmed in Illinois in nearly 200 years and leads the list of year-end stories around Chicago-area outdoors.

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