To the chagrin of waterfowlers, Canada geese becoming more suburban in Illinois

While hunters have been seeing fewer and fewer Canada geese from blinds along the state’s rivers in the fall, people living in Illinois cities and towns are noticing more and more of the birds – sometimes in the oddest places.
Across Chicago suburbs, spring is when geese start putting down temporary roots – setting up nests and laying eggs in parking lots, on store roofs and in concrete planters, to name a few of the human-made structures housing the wildlife.