CHICAGO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- The Chicago City Council has voted to buy 26 acres of woods on the far South Side to create a park district preserve to protect a pair of American bald eagles.
The eagles returned to the same area along the Little Calumet River for the third winter in a row earlier this month, hopefully to build another nest. If they do, they would be the first bald eagles to set up permanent housekeeping in the region since 1897.
Eagles live up to 30 years in the wild and mate for life.
"We want to make sure the whole area is protected," Alderman Anthony Beale told the Chicago Sun-Times after Wednesday's unanimous council vote.
The nest's exact location is not being released and conservation and local law enforcement authorities are monitoring the area.
