A popular beach and also the largest public one in Chicago, Montrose Beach is located near the Uptown neighborhood. It has fun activities for everyone in the family including the dog. Who needs to ...

Tamima] A little fluff ball. - [Geoffrey] Nagamo's famous grandparents, Monty and Rose, put Montrose Beach on the map for Chicago's human inhabitants. But it's always been a major stop on the ...

On June 18, four piping plover chicks hatched on Montrose Beach, the favored nesting spot of parents Monty and Rose, who flew back to Chicago after wintering apart. Already, the chicks are down to ...

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A yearslong recovery effort to help conserve the population of Great Lakes piping plovers reached an important milestone at Chicago’s Montrose Beach on Monday ...

The Chicago Park District has signed off on a habitat expansion of the Montrose dunes natural area, part of the beach where a pair of endangered Great Lakes piping plovers escaped a music festival ...

Nagamo, the last surviving piping plover chick at Montrose Beach, has returned to the lakefront after appearing to have flown the coop Thursday. The chick was the only piping plover chick who ...

Donation Options Search Search Search The protected area of Montrose Beach Dunes is being expanded to include the piping plovers’ nesting ground. Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times file Share The ...

They grow up so fast, don’t they? Nagamo, the lone surviving piping plover chick at Montrose Beach, headed south for the winter Thursday, according to the Chicago Piping Plovers, a volunteer ...