CHICAGO, USA - JULY 31 : People enjoy the inflammable water slide during the "Slide the City" water slide event at Montrose ...

Preservationists are asking neighbors to help choose names for the three endangered chicks that call Montrose Beach home.

They were released as chicks near Montrose Beach and Illinois Beach State Park in Zion last July, and have returned from their southerly wintering locations to start families.

The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts… ...

F irst I saw the tooth marks. Walking at the Montrose Beach Dunes one morning in November 2020, I noticed some tree stumps clustered along the edge of Lake Michigan. A foot or so above the muddy ...