While, I suspect, most of us were still sleeping, Pete Givan and Adele O’Dowd were out in Norwood Park leading a bird walk to do a New Year’s Day count and introducing participants to the trees in the Park.
The site plans for the proposed development at GEICO site include asking for a variance so that they can remove almost all the specimen sized trees on the 29 acre campus to make room for apartments and town houses. The impact to the environment of the lost of every mature shade tree cannot be overstated.