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Train Engineer Spots Black Bear Near Wisconsin Border
(CBS) — It’s something you might expect to see in Montana – or even in northern Wisconsin, but a black bear in Illinois? A locomotive engineer says he’s sure he saw one last Tuesday. Train engineer...
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Rockford Area Woman Spots Black Bear In Her Backyard
(CBS) — A Rockford area woman got a rude awakening Saturday morning in the form of a black bear in her yard. Sheryl Hutchinson spotted the bear eating berries from a bush around 10 a.m. “I was sitting...
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Black Bear Spotted Again In Far West Suburbs
GENOA, Ill. (CBS) — The far west suburban town of Genoa was abuzz Wednesday morning, with reports of a black bear sighting. WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody reports a DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy spotted...
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Latest Black Bear Sighting: Ogle County
(STMW) — A black bear spotted wandering around DeKalb County this week has now moved into Ogle County, officials said Friday. The bear was last seen in the Rochelle area about mid-afternoon, the DeKalb...
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Wandering Black Bear Could Be Headed Back To Wisconsin
(CBS) — A black bear that has been spotted wandering around the far western suburbs could be making its way back north. WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody reports the male bear was spotted Friday around...
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Black Bear Spotted Again In Northern Illinois
(CBS) — Illinois’ wandering bear has been spotted again after not being sighted since the weekend and now he’s moved on up a tree 110 miles west of Chicago. The bear strolled through several back yards...
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More Black Bears Could Be Headed To Illinois, Even Chicago: Experts
(CBS) — The black bear that’s been roaming the Illinois countryside for the past month has certainly captured our attention. He was first spotted in Galena on May 24. Since then, there have been 14...
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Indiana Wildlife Experts: Don’t Feed The Bear
WBBM 780’s Mike Krauser WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause CHICAGO (CBS) — Indiana wildlife experts believe a wandering black bear most recently spotted in Michigan City will go back home to Michigan, if people...
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Indiana Officials Trying To Trap And Relocate Wandering Black Bear
CHICAGO (CBS) — Indiana state officials have set a trap to catch a black bear that has been wandering around the Michigan City area for the past month, and if they catch him, they plan to take him back...
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Indiana Officials Could Tranquilize Bear To Take It Back To Michigan
CHICAGO (CBS) — More close encounters with a black bear that has been hanging around Michigan City have prompted state officials to take a more aggressive stance to capture the bear, so it can be taken...
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Michigan Man Has Face-To-Face Encounter With Black Bear
(CBS) — A southwest Michigan man had a close encounter with a black bear earlier this week, when the bear wandered onto his porch just after dinner. Max Luna had been grilling on his back deck Tuesday...
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Indiana DNR Teaches Residents How To Deal With Wandering Black Bear
CHICAGO (STMW) — Indiana state officials hosted a public meeting Wednesday night to discuss the black bear that has been wandering around northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan for the past four...
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Black Bear Resurfaces In Michigan, May Be Looking For A Mate
(CBS) — A black bear has just made history across the lake in Berrien County, Mich. You might remember that black bear that was wandering last year in southwest Michigan and into Indiana, places where...
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Black Bear Spotted In Indiana Last Year Out Of Winter Hibernation
(CBS) — The black bear is back. Authorities believe the same black bear that was seen around Michigan City last summer and fall spent the winter in southwest Michigan–a first since the 1800s. In the...
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Black Bear Spotted In Michigan, NW Indiana Dead
CHICAGO (CBS) — A black bear that had been spotted roaming about residential yards in southwest Michigan and northwest Indiana was trapped and killed over the weekend, according to the Michigan...
View ArticleWandering Black Bear ‘Bruno’ Tranquilized, Moved Outside St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Wildlife officials have relocated a black bear that had wandered into a St. Louis suburb and drew a crowd of hundreds curious to see the out-of-place animal. The bear has been popular...
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Indiana Family Visits Tennessee And Has Close — Very Close — Encounter With Bear
CROWN POINT, Ind. (CBS) — When the Franczak family of Crown Point, Indiana loaded up the family roadster to Sevierville, Tennessee, they planned a little family getaway. But then, that family roadster...
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