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About 170 Cook County residents, young and old, joined the March for Science held Saturday, April 22. Starting at the Community Center, marchers, many of whom carried signs that read, “Science is not dead,” “Science not silence,” “We have no planet B,” or “Dear climate, you’ve changed,” walked through the streets of Grand Marais, ending at Harbor Park where Dr. Jean Cochrane, Dr. Seth Moore, Dr. Myron Schmidt, three young ladies (ages 9-10) from the Nordic Nature Group and Cook County Invasive Coordinator Amanda Weberg all spoke about the various ways science has made our lives better, from medicine, traditional knowledge of indigenous people, to electricity, to cleaning up the environment and more. Coordinating the event were Ann Bellman, Kathy McClure, Mary Sanders, and Jean Cochrane. While Chicago had 40,000 marchers, Cochrane noted that was less than 1 percent of their population. Cook County, with 5,200 residents, had 3 percent of its population turn out to join millions of people who took part in over 600 other marches worldwide on Earth Day.