For years Sararose Krenger and her family joked that alligators lived near their Ravenswood Gardens’ home along the Chicago River.
On Sunday Krenger, 22, and her family were on their boat traveling the river when their joke became a reality. They spotted a three-to-five-foot alligator basking in the sun along the bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River just north of Belmont Avenue.
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