Contest begins to name two eaglets born in Chicago
A contest to name the first two eaglets born in Chicago in over a century is underway, the Chicago Park District announced Wednesday.
Voting is being conducted online at the park district’s website, and ends June 1. Ballots can be submitted here.
Voters will be asked to pick two of the three names under consideration: Migizi, Marian and Clawumet.
Those three choices “stood out” from the thousands of suggestions received after the park district asked the public to send in possible names for the eaglets. By the May 15 deadline, 3,271 names had been received from 1,161 participants.
The two birds were first spotted — one in late April, the other in early May — at Park 597, known as “SEPA Station #1” in the South Deering neighborhood, according to the park district.
“Migizi” is the word for bald eagle in the language of the Ojibwe , a Native American tribe with Chicago roots.
“Marian” is for Marian R. Byrnes a lifelong Chicago environmentalist and civil rights activist, and namesake of a 140-acre park district site on the South Side.
Clawumet is a play on the word Calumet, the Southeast Side region where the eaglets’ nest is located.
An eagle flies near its nest in Park 597 at 2690 E. 126th Pl. on the Southeast Side on May 7.
Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
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