In the past 10 years, millions more ash trees have died, and the invasive buckthorn now makes up 36% of the Chicago region’s trees, census shows Morgan Greene, Chicago Tribune © Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune Permaculture designer Annamaria Leon plants sugar tyme crabapple trees at Douglas Boulevard and Central Park Avenue in Chicago, April 30, 2021.
When Shirley Rounds Davis moved to her home on the Far South Side decades ago, she could see a maple tree through the window. Over the years, she watched it grow.
“And the birds would come,” Davis said. “In the morning, they would wake me up, and my children too, they’d wake us up with their song in the morning.”
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