Trying to find a snake in Chicago? Keep looking . . . and looking . . .

Chicago Sun-Times | August 15, 2005| | Copyright

Mike Dloogatch and I are hunting for snakes in Chicago, although we're pretty far from City Hall, so we're not having much luck.

"It's been real hot and dry for a long time," says Mike, bending down in the early-morning drizzle and flipping over an old board. "This rain might bring them out."

Mike, who is one of Chicago's leading authorities on the matter, has promised me that any snakes we might find won't hiss or bite or wrap themselves around my wallet and demand a payoff, so I turn over boards and rocks, too.

"They stay disappeared most of the time," he says. "Hiding from hawks and owls, ...

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