How Do Chicago’s Most Tenacious Weeds Grow?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tenacious weeds like buckthorn, milkweed and goldenrod grow everywhere in Chicago from railroad tracks to sidewalk cracks. Reporter Natalie Dalea finds out how they’ve adapted to survive city life. Plus what happens to all the landscaping along the Mag Mile after the summer is over.

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0:00.0	Over here, I saw this, so I got excited.
0:04.0	Yeah.
0:04.8	Tell us what we're looking at.
0:06.9	You are actually under an edible tree.
0:09.4	This is Sumac.
0:11.2	Hey, it's Natalie Dalia.
0:13.0	You might remember me.
0:14.7	Up until a couple weeks ago, I was the Curious City intern.
0:18.6	Well, I missed everyone so much, I had to come back for one more episode.
0:23.2	So when I'm hungry, I head to the fridge or the pantry, and when those are empty, I hit the
0:28.9	grocery store or a restaurant. I had no idea I could find all kinds of things to eat growing
0:35.4	out of the ground around Chicago.
0:38.4	Here's chickory.
0:39.4	Chickery.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:40.5	So sometimes you'll see like chickory as an additive.
0:44.0	It kind of makes coffee cheaper.
0:47.4	But it has...
0:48.3	Yeah, it's called urban foraging.
0:50.5	Go ahead.
0:50.9	Put this in your fingers.
0:52.7	It's really fresh.
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