Essays, poems, and artwork about the wildlife that inhabits the city of Chicago

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 Ri