CHICAGO — When she took her dog out to Oak Street Beach on their morning walk Sunday, Portia Belloc Lowndes came across a scene that was so disturbing, she said, it felt “like a horror show.” ...

red-breasted mergansers and Canada geese at Oak Street and North Avenue beaches in Chicago and Tower Beach in Winnetka. “I think they’re flying until they’re too sick, and they’re just ...

To enhance her ninth-floor home's vistas and flow, the homeowner removed walls that had stood since the mid-1960s.