Rainy weather delayed the tree being cut down Monday.
It was there long, long before new lion cubs Pesho, Sidai, and Lomelok made their recent debut.
It was there when Bushman – the famous gorilla who remains on display in taxidermy form at the Field Museum – died in 1951. It was there when Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 – and there was no zoo yet. And even a century before that.
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