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Hundreds of monk parakeets, escapees from the pet trade, have settled beneath the city’s elevated highway. Monk parakeets have established perches in Miami, New York and other cities. But the colony underneath the Skyway, where the birds build their nests among the concrete and steel supports several stories off the ground, is one of the more improbable spots they scratch out a living.
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A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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All the little boys that Harold Washington would bring back to his apartment always commented in the pretty green birds in park by his building.
Funny. It had never occurred to me that Harold Washington was gay until the aldermen flipped out over the Art Institute kid’s Washington in a Dress painting. When I first heard of it I thought…..Right. That makes sense. And their reaction confirmed it.
First come the South American birds, then come the South American hordes!
Everyone but government workers have to scratch out a living wage.
tax the parakeets!!