The worry, if you can actually call it that, is that this historical cicada emergence, the likes of which we haven't seen since Thomas Jefferson was president and Illinois wasn't even a state yet, might not be all it's been advertised to be...at least in some areas of Illinois. Cou...
cicadas don’t disperse very far,” said Jim Louderman, a collection’s assistant at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. “When you cut down the tree that the cicada is living on as a nymph underground, they die.”