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Made it up to Sidney Yates earlier today with my dog, the first couple bits of woods walking were uneventful-ish, except for being approached by two different groups of three deer (or were they the same group?). They are remarkably tame here, they even approach towards us after noticing us. Anyway, a couple structures from the summer still there looking untouched. On the other side of the river though, there was a new structure: You can see a bunch of these branches are burned, as well as part of the main tree, so this could be the work of the pyromaniac teenagers we were talking about (plastic bags of empty beer cans not too far away support that). It doesn't look like this was actually a fire though... there's no kindling or ash below the structure, and not all the branches are burned. We came out into a big open field and were about to head back to the car when several knocks came from the woods across. We walked across to check out the source, and were led straight to another structure, exactly where the knocks had come from: As we got to this structure, a couple more knocks came from further back, but to be honest I couldn't even imagine where. At this point, we were in a very thin strip of trees just down a hill from the road and rec center. I guess these knocks came from the woods beyond the rec. I just don't know. And that's fine.

I grew up on 54th street in Hyde Park. Always went ice skating on the midway. There is no place for this creature here. Chicago is a huge city of nothing but buildings and streets. Not much in the way of forests until you get to the suburbs. Kids are the probable cause. Kids always played there, including me when i was a kid. It seems they still are using it for ice skating and still have the warming house. I am sure kids still play there all the time also.

Or he just might have a rational, non-squatch-related answer. No reason for you to go complicating a rather mundane situation. But you already did. Imo...