Animals

The recent discovery of a bald eagle nest within the city limits, the first one sighted since the 1880s, points to the success of the ban on DDT and protection granted by the Federal and State laws. But it also reveals how, if given a chance, nature will fill in the niches of our built environment.

Otto, a seventeen pound miniature schnauzer, soon to be six years old, was brutally attached in the lot behind the Bucktown/Wicker Park Library on Feb. 28, at approximately 9:30 p.m. He was in ICU and in critical condition for five days. The attacking dog was "very large with long white hair and brown markings on its face.