Have you met Chicago’s Bug Girl? Janelle Iaccino wants to enlighten the city on the greatness of the creepy, crawly things

When you think of the acronym STEM, you likely know it stands for science, technology, engineering and math. But does it make you think about bugs, rodentia and taxidermy? Janelle Iaccino thinks it should. Iaccino is marketing director of Rose Pest Solutions, a structural pest control company that ensures nature and the environment stay outside […]

Park District names part of Montrose Beach after beloved piping plovers Monty and Rose

The Chicago Park District has voted to rename a section of the Montrose Beach Dunes Natural Area after Monty and Rose, a beloved pair of piping plovers whose unlikely love story captured the hearts of Chicagoans. The stretch of the lakefront, now dubbed the Monty and Rose Wildlife Habitat, is part of a 3.1-acre expansion of the protected land in Lincoln Park. The Park District’s Board of Commissioners voted on the name Wednesday, which fittingly coincided on Valentine’s Day. Monty and Rose achieved local celebrity status in 2019 when they became the first of their endangered species to raise a […]