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0 Pets This week's batch of adoptable pets in your area are looking for their forever homes. Will one go home with you? Pet News , Patch Staff Posted Reply Want to add to your family? Look no further than these Des Plaines animal shelters for a pet available for adoption. Animal shelters have dogs, cats and other kinds of pets ready and waiting for someone to take them home. There are thousands of dogs, cats and other animals of all ages and sizes without a home throughout Illinois — many of whom are located in your area. For those looking to adopt, a great place to start your search for an adorable new fur child is at Almost Home Foundation, where Andrea the cat is waiting patiently, or another local rescue center. If you aren't sure if you have time to take care of a pet year round, many shelters also offer opportunities to foster pets until they are placed in permanent homes. With help from our friends at Petfinder, … [Read more...] about Des Plaines: Dogs, Cats, Pets Available For Adoption At Area Shelters

T he bald eagle, a bird that lives only in North America, is sometimes mistaken for an idea. Take the Great Seal of the United States: The eagle clutches an olive branch in one claw, a set of 13 arrows in the other. His wings stretch out tall and wide from behind a shield, and his fulsome beak holds a ribbon inscribed with Latin: “ E pluribus unum .” That is a collage of symbols about peace and war and history and unity, not a bird. A real bald eagle is made of flesh and feathers and talons — a thing of nature, not a pastiche of concepts. Noble virtues do not map neatly onto apex predators, a fact that troubled Benjamin Franklin as early as 1784. In a letter to his daughter, he wrote: “I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral Character. He does not get his Living honestly.” But the first time Will Harris saw a bald eagle on his farm, six years ago, Franklin’s lesson was one he had not yet learned. Harris, the owner … [Read more...] about When the National Bird Is a Burden

0 This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. Community Corner This year, the Elmhurst Park District is mapping its future by updating its comprehensive and strategic plan. Elmhurst Park District , Community Contributor Posted | Updated Reply This year, the Elmhurst Park District is mapping its future by updating its comprehensive and strategic plan. Part of this process will be hearing from the community and giving residents the opportunity to share their insights and ideas through a website, surveys and in-person events. The Elevate Elmhurst Parks Comprehensive and Strategic Plan process kicked off this past weekend, with the debut of a new, interactive website where the community can give direct feedback to the Park District about parks, programs, facilities and more. Residents will have a number of in-person opportunities to provide feedback in the coming weeks and … [Read more...] about Elevate Elmhurst Parks – Park District looking for community feedback

Good morning. It’s Monday. I’m on duty today as my colleague James Barron caps off a well-earned vacation. Today we’ll talk to a local filmmaker who uses Hastings-on-Hudson, the New York City suburb, as his muse. In the most isolating days of the pandemic, a walk around the neighborhood became for many a ritual of community, fresh air and mental salvation. These constitutionals were also a backdrop to a (re)kindled love and appreciation for all that is local — accessible not by plane or iPhone, but by feet. Peter Callahan, a filmmaker in the New York City suburb of Hastings-on-Hudson, is the writer, director and star of a new movie, “ Out and About ,” that takes its entire story from one man’s afternoon walk around his town, a familiar setting in which he struggles to locate his place in the world. “There is a universality to small towns that I think makes the film resonate,” Callahan said in an interview. “Hastings is both unique and like everywhere else.” … [Read more...] about A Good Walk, Filmed