Two things that a “never” happen here happened this week.
First, on Monday a cougar was reported wandering in the Roscoe Village neighborhood, hiding under front porches. Police chased it around and finally shot it dead in an alley. It was quite sad to see the cougar trying to escape, so clearly lost and backed into a corner. And it must have been alarming for neighbors to first see a cougar tooling around their yard, and then to have Chicago police shooting at it like target practice. Today reports say the cougar might have been from the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Washington Post reports that, “Government protections on cougars (also called mountain lions and panthers) in the Upper Plains states have caused once-threatened populations to rebound to the point of saturation, forcing more of the big cats to migrate far afield.”
Second, we had an earthquake last night. I slept through it but this morning working at my desk I definitely felt an aftershock.
Never say never.