Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monroe County is already preparing for America250. The country turn 250-years-old on July 4. An early local observance took place ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the week, neighbors passed by around the massive tree, admiring its size and history. Some took pieces from the ...

For the next few months, Katrina Quint has one request for visitors to the Lincoln Park Zoo: Look up. Across from the white-cheeked gibbon enclosure sits a great, sprawling bur oak tree, about 45 feet ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- It was there long, long before new lion cubs Pesho, Sidai, and Lomelok made their recent debut. It was there when Otto the Gorilla escaped in 1982 – and before he was the subject of a ...

A celebration in honor of a centuries-old bur oak tree that has died will take place Sunday in Northbrook. According to a news release, the goodbye event will feature crafts and activities, along with ...

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This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, the NPR station in Chicago. If you wanted to point to a tree that can handle climate change, you might start with the bur ...

Plano's Parks and Recreation department cited a project to preserve the city's oldest tree as one of the department's top highlights of 2021. The quadricentennial (400 years) bur oak tree in Bob ...

The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

Monroe County is already preparing for America250. The country turn 250-years-old on July 4. An early local observance took place April 24, Arbor Day. A 250-year-old Burr Oak tree received its second ...