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Article: Suspected timber wolf found near Chain O' Lakes.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2005
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Byline: Sue Ter Maat Daily Herald Staff Writer
Born in central Wisconsin, he made his way to Illinois, traveling south along the natural corridor of the Fox River.
Along the way, he ate roadkill, mice and raccoons. At some point, he found himself in the Chain O' Lakes State Park in Lake County.
On Thursday morning, he was crossing Route 173, about a mile from Wilmot Road, when a car struck him, cracking his pelvis and crushing his internal organs.
At the side of the road, he died - a young eastern timber wolf whose kind died out a century ago in Illinois.
It's a likely scenario assuming the dead animal is truly an eastern ...