Warblers’ EMS. “We don’t know exactly what happens in this maze of tall buildings,” musician and Loop bird rescuer Robbie Hunsinger tells Chicago Wilderness (Summer). Somehow during spring and fall migrations “the birds–a lot of thrushes, warblers, ovenbirds–get pulled down into these canyons then fly into lit windows and reflective glass, or else just become exhausted from circling and settle at street level. Which is one of the reasons it’s crucial to get there early because there’s a huge predator problem: gulls, crows, some rats. I’ve seen a gull pick up a stunned bird right in front of me before I could get to it.”
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“Employers prevail 94.5 percent of the time” in lawsuits based on the Americans With Disabilities Act and “78.1 percent of the time in administrative complaints handled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” reports the American Bar Association in a June 18 press release. Why? Because plaintiffs “must have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity…yet still be qualified to perform essential job functions.”
And planks are no longer involved. Jim Nugent writes in the June issue of “Bike Traffic” that the 20-mile-long Old Plank Road Trail, which runs from Joliet to Park Forest, “is like Chicago’s Lakefront path but with less people, no lake but more nature.”
