A year after Life magazine chronicled "The Good Life" in Madison, a special vacation issue from the publisher of the Saturday Evening Post trumpeted the entire state with color photos
A big buck at Illinois Beach State Park, a Chicago mantis making an office visit, the latest stocking of muskies into Geneva Lake in Wisconsin and some poetry from Gertrude Stein are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
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Alan Anderson photographing limpkins far from home and Dominic Wroblewski sending artful photographs of observations in his backyard are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.