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Backyard birds by city / Illinois

Backyard birds in Illinois, by city

72 cities, largest first. See also the state-wide species guides.

Chicago Aurora Rockford Joliet Naperville Peoria Springfield Elgin Waukegan Champaign Cicero Belmont Cragin Bloomington Arlington Heights Evanston Schaumburg Bolingbrook Decatur Des Plaines Orland Park Tinley Park Oak Lawn Wheaton South Shore Downers Grove Elmhurst DeKalb Plainfield Belleville Bartlett Quincy Crystal Lake Carpentersville Oswego Pekin St. Charles Danville Mundelein Galesburg Chicago Heights Upper Alton Granite City O'Fallon Round Lake Beach Kankakee McHenry Carbondale Huntley New Lenox Harvey Woodstock Belvidere Edwardsville Collinsville Freeport Zion Wasco Charleston Lake Zurich Jacksonville Macomb Yorkville Ottawa Mattoon Marion Sycamore Shorewood Washington Morton Dixon Mount Vernon Sterling

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