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Still a threatened species in Illinois, the osprey has made a comeback in Cook County
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Nearly 600 million birds are killed each year in North America due to collisions with buildings and not just skyscrapers. Residences up to four stories in height account for 250 million of the 600 million total, according to the National Audubon Society.
Among the major contributors to these deadly crashes: artificial light at night which disorients the birds and glass, due to both its transparency and mirrorlike, reflective properties.
With the stroke of a pen from Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois became the latest entity to enact legislation aimed at stemming the carnage.
Under the Bird Safe Buildings Act, any newly constructed state building will be required to incorporate bird-friendly design. The same rules apply, with a handful of exemptions, to renovations of state buildings in which more than half of the facade is substantially altered.
Presidential libraries are a tradition. A dumb and corrupt one. Especially as they evolved beyond places for researchers to study presidential papers and became interactive multimedia centers funded by major donors despite the reality that they re not especially popular. Obama had to push his narcissism to the top and that meant hijacking significant real estate in Chicago while picking a fight with everyone. The war over Obama s library, which is anything but a library, is finally drawing to some sort of conclusion, but local opposition continues, with Obama backers, predictably, accusing locals of racism. This past spring, a small group working under the name Protect Our Parks sued the Obama Foundation, which oversees the fundraising for and building of the center, among other defendants. The group then followed up with a recent motion calling for a halt to construction, which it said could cause “irreparable harm” to the park by tearing up roads, cutting