From Rogers Park to Calumet Park, many people in the Chicago area are reporting a surge in flies.
Are there more flies, especially ones that bite?
The public health departments of Chicago and Illinois don’t track biting flies. But anecdotally, they seem ubiquitous. Social media is buzzing with people lamenting getting attacked by flies everywhere from Belmont Harbor to Logan Square.
“Today at a park in West Town I got swarmed by like seven flies after sitting on the ground for less than five minutes with my dog. Those bites are no joke,” wrote one Reddit user this week.
Another Reddit user had to leave Oak Street Beach, “because there were hundreds of flies that kept landing on me and staying on my skin. Felt like tiny needles. I’ve never experienced this at the beach.”…