I’m north, by Montrose Beach, and I haven’t seen any yet, by I imagine by this weekend I will.
I haven’t heard any yet; I’m living in an apartment, but we have a pretty big backyard. I was living in the same neighborhood 17 years ago (though I did leave for a long stretch in the middle), and I don’t remember hearing any then, either.
Fucking hell, is there anything you Merkins don’t eat.
I mean you already gronff on squirrels and snakes :eek:
Wassamarrer with sticking to proper food like liver and onions or pigs trotters 
Still nothing, although the wind has been so intense the last two days, maybe it’s delayed them, somehow?
How warm has it been? My understanding is that they wake up when it gets warm enough.
Hopefully this ridiculously strong wind has blown them into Lake Michigan.
The warm only affects their emerging by a few days. I guess some guy predicted to the day when they would emerge somewhere in Ohio or something. There are definitely a lot out there; I see pictures on the news. But I haven’t seen a single one.
It’s been unseasonably warm this week.
None here from my control station in Jefferson Park. I grew up in Park Ridge and fondly recall the brood 17 years ago.
The Chicago Tribune says they should be in time to celebrate Memorial Day weekend. Whoopie.
Haven’t seen any yet down here in Park Forest, but I don’t remember them from 17 years ago, either. And I think I would have noticed then; I had a toddler and an infant, along with an eight. If there had been bugs dropping on us as I fastened car seats, I think I’d remember.
We’ve sold out of cheesecloth and nylon netting at the fabric store where I work, and nearly out of illusion. People have lots of little trees to cover, apparently.
People! We have rules for a reason!
All cicada threads must contain cute cicada pics.
In Glen Ellyn (20 miles W of downtown) they’ve been coming out in increasing numbers over the past week. Last Sat a.m. I saw the first “husks” on the sidewalk, and that afternoon I heard some tentative chirping from the trees.
It seems very localized - walking to the train there are areas under some trees - Norway maples and locusts it seems - where it would be more effort to avoid stepping on them than to crunch away. And several folks have observed that they seem to emerge from the ground most heavily at night. My dog has been snarfing away on them so much that she hasn’t wanted her dinner.
Yesterday evening it was pretty loud in my back yard. And my kids said that for a senior prank the high school kids let hundreds of them loose in one of the stairwells.
17 years ago I was in Lombard (1 town to the E) and it was the same way. You could hear thew pretty much everywhere, but in some blocks it was downright deafening, and they pretty much covered the sidewalks and streets.
34 years ago I remember going out to the forest preserves - Axehead Lake, and every stem of grass seemed to bear several carcasses. Perhaps the highlight was when we went to my great-uncle’s funeral near Cumberland and Belmont, and at the gravesite a couple of locusts got tangled up with the grieving widow, sending her into hysterics.
Nah, you won’t. My home was farmland 17 years ago too, I’m probably just due north of you - NW of Plainfield.
I remember 17 years ago, and being in Downers Grove for the fest. We parked a few blocks away and crunched our way through the sidewalks to get downtown. The town I live in now has an old downtown area that’s going to get hammered.
haze - I told you before, Hyde Park is going to get buried. Wear a helmet.
I don’t know it they’re supposed to be this far north, but I found a bunch of tan colored molts all over the ground by the front flower garden yesterday. Not even sure if they’re from cicadas or not but it does have me concerned.
As Malienation said, we had our 17-year outbreak here a couple of summers ago.
I thought it was great, to tell the truth. It was neat having their hum in the air all the time, although it did get a bit disconcerting when they would fly straight into you while you’re walking down the street.
Interactive 17-year cicada map, for you Chicago peeps.
I remember these from when I was a little kid back in Ohio. You couldn’t walk outside without stepping on them. Gross.
My parents’ first house was in Tinley Park; they must’ve heard the 1956 edition. I must have heard the next one down Kankakee way in '73 but I was only five.
Yep. We’re right on the border for Brood XIV next year; if we don’t get any then the next one will be Brood II in 2013.
Close to O’Hare and I haven’t seen any yet. I drive past the forest preserves on the way home from work every day. I’ve kept my sun roof closed as a precaution, but I’m begining to doubt how necessary that is.
Come to think if it, I do remember nickel-sized holes in the ground when visiting the state park but that may have been Brood XXIII in '76.
Well, according to this, they’re all over my subdivision in Lake County. But I sure haven’t seen or heard any yet, and I’ve got a marsh behind my house and a forest preserve about a quarter mile away.