Whoops! Rare crane rescued in Wilmette, returned to Wisconsin

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Whoops! Rare crane rescued in Wilmette, returned to Wisconsin

Hillary Thompson, in a crane costume, rescues a rare, endangered whooping crane from a Wilmette neighborhood on Tuesday.Scott Judd/Provided One of the rarest birds in North America made an unexpected stop in Wilmette this week.A nearly 1-year-old whooping crane making her first migration north to Wisconsin lost track of her four companions and suddenly found herself wandering a neighborhood in the northern suburb Tuesday morning.Luckily for her…