Reply #101: There have been several in downtown Chicago.

[madhoosier]

One went into a 7/11 and laid down by the soft drink cooler, it was captured by animal control officers and relocated after a check-up by a vet., others have been seen on the beach along Lake Michigan and another swimming in the river in Chicago. There are lots of coyotes in north central Indiana, out here in rural Indiana they are hunted enough that they don't mess with many domestic pets that are close to a house. They will prey on lambs so the few farmers that still raise sheep pasture donkeys with their sheep, the donkeys consider the sheep to be part of their herd and will defend the sheep against coyotes.

A few years ago the local packs of coyotes had all staked out territory like the slices of a pie with my house located in the center. At night one pack would start howling then the others would join in, we'd hear as many as six packs howling at once. You'd think "I'm glad those aren't wolves."