City creatures: animal encounters in the Chicago wilderness

Introducing city creatures / Dave Aftandilian and Gavin Van Horn

1. Backyard Diversity. Up not out / Janice F. Meister ; Keeping chickens / Terra Brockman ; Holding backyard chicken / Colleen Plumb ; Consumes mi dolor ... mi muerte = You consume my pain ... my death / Alma Domínguez ; Looking up / Melinda Pruett-Jones ; Fieldguide / Mark Crisanti ; Falling apart / Tom Montgomery Fate ; Five squirrels froze / Susan Hahn ; The one that hums / Kendra Langdon Juskus ; Mysterium opossum / Lea F. Schweitz ; Raccoon / Amy Newman ; Fox / Cannon Dill and Brett Flanigan ; The fox / Amy Newman ; A eulogy for my friends / Steve Sullivan ; Prayer for the squirrel / Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody ; Murder / Maskull Lasserre ; Asha : jewel of the Nile / Xavier Nuez ; The western scarab / Ed Roberson ; Visits from a messenger / Nora Moore Lloyd ; The oracle of wasps / Patricia Monaghan

2. Neighborhood Associations. Chicago wildlife / Johannes Plagemann ; Keegan's story / Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody ; Zoo woods / Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody ; Hubbard Street murals / Leslie Berish, Augustina Droze, Ricki Hill, Chris Jones, Neil Shapiro, and the Hubbard Street Mural Project volunteers ; A tale of two squirrels and one city / Joel S. Brown ; Noble Horse stables / Brooke Collins ; Rooftop beekeeping / Kyle Gati ; Pigeons / David Hernandez ; DH + BH / Camilo Cumpian ; Civitas Canis lupus familiaris / Michael S. Hogue ; Y ora pa onde chingaos / Alma Domínguez ; Aquí se hace tarde demasiado temprano / Alma Domínguez ; Wanting was an alley cat / Susan Hahn ; Ferrets / ROA ; Kiskinwahamâtowin = Learning together : outdoor classrooms and prairie restoration at the American Indian Center of Chicago / Eli Suzukovich III ; Owl / Brooks Blair Golden ; The red fox who toys with the dead / Brenda Cárdenas ; Remaking our covenants of life and death on the Dunes commons / J. Ronald Engel ; Nikki : (hiphop) dancing queen / Xavier Nuez ; Crickets / Jill Spealman ; The boarding stable / Joseph Kayne

3. Animals on Display. Dolphins at play / Gregory J. Auberry ; Train to the zoo / Joan Gibb Engel ; Puma / Carlos Ernesto Uribe Cardozo ; Bridging the divide : pondering humanity at the zoo / Andrea Friederici Ross ; Bushman, Field Museum / Colleen Plumb ; Nature on pause / Peggy MacNamara ; A museum of change in Illinois / James Ballowe ; Chicago mammals, Field Museum / Colleen Plumb ; A living taxidermy / Rebecca Beachy ; Happy birthday / Sonnet L. Schulz ; Six sketches at the Field Museum / Benn Colker ; Playing for life : learning to care about nature at the Hamill Family Play Zoo / David Becker ; Field Museum, drawer of bluebirds; Field Museum, drawer of cardinals; Field Museum, drawer of meadowlarks / Terry Evans

4. Connecting Threads. Flock / Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee ; Migration : a bird's and birder's eye view / Joel Greenberg ; Birds spotted while hiking Wooded Isle, Hyde Park, Illinois / Diana Sudyka ; The song of Northerly Island / Wendy J. Paulson ; Wildlife comes to Lake Shore Drive, endangered species / Michelle Kogan ; A siege of herons : Nycticorax nycticorax / James Ballowe ; Orchids and their animals / Stephen Packard ; Massasauga rattlesnake / Blake Lenoir ; The last roundup : observations on a local population of the eastern massasauga rattlesnake / Stephan Swanson ; Snake 2 / Julie Meridian ; Butterfly collection / Julie Meridian ; Letting the city bug you : the artistic and ecological virtues of urban insect collecting / Andrew S. Yang ; Untitled / Arthur Melville Pearson ; Being unseen : the gift of Oppiella nova / Liam Heneghan ; Soil : alive with life / Sharon Bladholm ; The indomitable water bear / Alex Chitty ; Burnham Centennial Prairie, Lake Shore Drive / Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody ; Visitations / Elise Paschen

Extinct animal series : Schomburgk's deer, golden toad, and pink-headed duck / Jiha Park

5. Water Worlds. Stroll / Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee ; Washed up on the shores of Lake Michigan / Curt Meine ; The alewives / Todd Davis ; Alewives / Colleen Plumb ; The fanciful fairy tale of freezing frogs / Jill Riddell ; Pescado blanco en Río Chicago = White fish in Chicago River / René H. Arceo ; Heavy water Kim Laurel ; Canoeing through history : wild encounters on Bubbly Creek / Michael A. Bryson ; Riverwalk Gateway, the south branch of the river / Ellen Lanyon ; Riverwalk Gateway / Ellen Lanyon ; The fish in the cage / Todd Davis ; Pond reflection / Eleanor Spiess-Ferris ; Flood / Eleanor Spiess-Ferris ; Calumet : requiem or rebirth? / John Rogner ; Bubbly Creek / Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

6. Coming Home to the City. Untitled / Molly Schafer ; Great migrations : immigrants to the Indiana dunes, from grandparents to great blue herons to people of color and conviction / Gary Paul Nabhan ; Desenredando fronteras = Unraveling borders / Hector Duarte ; Eye and cardinal / Tony Tasset ; "Hardy, colorful, and sometimes annoyingly loud" : the Hyde Park parakeets / Dave Aftandilian ;

Flock of pigeons /

Jyoti Srivastava ; Endangered species / Mary Cross ; Pigeon! / Andrew S. Yang and the Small Science Collective ; Sheka'kwa and the skunks of my re-rooting / Marynia Kolak ; Care bare / Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee ; Nature calls / Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee ; Above all / Kendra Langdon Juskus ; Untitled (I promise to forget you) / Steve Seeley ; Coyotes : the ghost dogs of Chicago / Stanley D. Gehrt ; Wolf with birds / Nikki Jarecki ; Ghost species / Brenda Cárdenas ; Tickling the bellies of the buffalo / Gavin Van Horn ; Indiana dunes / Blake Lenoir.