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Family of foxes make Chicago’s Millennium Park home

CHICAGO -- Below the towering skyscrapers lining Chicago’s Millennium Park, an unlikely group is holing up in a garden: A family of foxes. Several kits frolicked in Lurie Garden as their mother looked on Sunday night. They played on the walkway, groomed one another atop a concrete slab and walked under metal gates lining the park. As the animals work their way into Chicago’s heart, wildlife ...
A fox in Millennium Park on May 21, 2023, in Chicago.

CHICAGO -- Below the towering skyscrapers lining Chicago’s Millennium Park, an unlikely group is holing up in a garden: A family of foxes.

Several kits frolicked in Lurie Garden as their mother looked on Sunday night. They played on the walkway, groomed one another atop a concrete slab and walked under metal gates lining the park.

As the animals work their way into Chicago’s heart, wildlife experts say the furry family, yet another example of wildlife thriving in Chicago, also offers a lesson in city ecology.

“This is such an amazing example of

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