The wild animals are coming back to Chicago, sometimes after a century and, in the case of the alligator, after maybe 15,000 years,http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorThu, 20 Nov 2008 2:15:47 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/106968/alligator-caught-in-lake-in-plainfield.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe waiting game is over. An American alligator that had been living in Plainfield's Lake Renwick has been caught. After days of watching and baiting with chicken legs officials say they have caught the 4-foot gator vacationing at the heron rookery in Lake Renwick.The alligator was in the custody of the Chicago Herpetological Society.Early Thursday morning, the alligator wandered into one of the traps set by Glen Buckner, a wildlife ecologist for the Will County Forest Preserve.http://www.newser.com/story/106968/alligator-caught-in-lake-in-plainfield.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 18 Jul 2008 3:43:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30564/gator-caught-in-chicago.html?refid=rss_all_defaultAlligator wranglers may not be the busiest of folks in metro Chicago, but they came through yesterday by yanking a 5-foot unwelcome visitor out of the Chicago River, the Tribune reports. The healthy female, probably a discarded pet, is on her way to a sanctuary in the Southeast.http://www.newser.com/story/30564/gator-caught-in-chicago.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 21 Jun 2008 6:17:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/100513/chicagos-wildlife-time-out-chicago.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWhere to spot the loping, leaping, soaring, scurrying, paddling and prowling animals that lurk in our urban junglehttp://www.newser.com/story/100513/chicagos-wildlife-time-out-chicago.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 20 Jun 2008 18:41:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/26244/cougars-long-trek-to-chicago-may-tell-tale.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA cougar shot April 14 in Chicago was spotted earlier in Wisconsin, DNA tests show, suggesting an epic trek. Now, scientists are eager to study the animal, hoping to learn more about how and why it migrated; they aim to pin down its ancestry in an effort to better understand how animals like it adjust to human populations, the Chicago Tribune reports.http://www.newser.com/story/26244/cougars-long-trek-to-chicago-may-tell-tale.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 20 Jun 2008 18:35:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/24564/cougar-killed-on-chicago-street.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThe first cougar spotted in Chicago since the city's 19th-century founding ran loose around the Windy City over the weekend only to be shot dead last night in a North Side neighborhood by police officers who feared it was going to attack them, the Chicago Tribune reports. As the police chief puts it: "There was no way to take it into custody."http://www.newser.com/story/24564/cougar-killed-on-chicago-street.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 20 Jun 2008 18:35:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/100510/coyote-visits-chicago-sandwich-shop.html?refid=rss_all_defaultEmployees and customers at a downtown Chicago Quizno's sandwich shop were stunned to see a coyote walk through the propped-open front door Tuesday afternoon and lie down in a cooler stocked with fruit juice and soda.http://www.newser.com/story/100510/coyote-visits-chicago-sandwich-shop.html?refid=rss_all_defaultFri, 20 Jun 2008 18:34:55 CDT