Hi, it's Curious City editor Susie on.

And I'm hanging out with third and fourth graders at Urban Prairie Waldorf School in Chicago.

The class submitted a bunch of questions to Curia City like,

Is City Hall Haunted? How are animals able to survive and thrive in Chicago?

And what's the oldest street in the city?

But there was a theme that kept coming up quite a bit.

Did any dinosaurs walk on Chicago?

While people were working if they found any fossils?

The dinosaurs shaped kind of like where the structures of buildings were.

It was clear there was a fascination with dinosaurs and fossils. The dinosaurs shape kind of like where the structures of buildings were.

It was clear there was a fascination with dinosaurs and fossils and the possibility of some of that prehistoric stuff existing under our feet in the city.

My brother is obsessed with dinosaurs, so I've learned everything I know from him.

I hope that someone has found like like, a fossil in Chicago,

because, like, I would like to tell my brother that.

And I think he would think he would think that was awesome.

Thanks to Eiffa, Moran, and Apollonia for giving us the assignment.

So, shovel in hand, okay, not really, microphone in hand, I went in search of evidence of prehistoric creatures that potentially lived in our city millions of years ago.

That's coming up.

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