A series of special virtual events (October 25 - November 5) launches our inaugural Born to Be Wild celebration of the Chicago River system and its wildlife.

Friends of the Chicago River is pleased to welcome Ryan Christopher Green, chief investment and administrative officer at DL3 Realty, to Friends' Board of Directors.

The fall season is time to harvest seed from native plants to be spread this coming spring. Learn more here.

The Chicago River Schools Network (CRSN) offers free online distance learning to support the many school districts in the Chicago region including the Chicago Public Schools. Learn more here.

National experts share their green infrastructure successes at the 2020 Chicago River Summit to be held virtually November 10, 12, & 13 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Learn more here.

The fall 2020 bridgelift viewing season is underway every Saturday through the end of October at the McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum at Michigan and Wacker. Learn more here.

Friends is working with restoration volunteers at McClaughrey Springs Woods as part of an Illinois Clean Energy Community Stewardship grant. We invite you to join in at an upcoming restoration day. Learn more here.

Recent passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) by the U.S. House of Representatives is a boost for Bubbly Creek. The legislation now goes to the Senate for consideration.

The first survey of mussels conducted since Friends of the Chicago River and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) reconnected southwest suburban Mill Creek to the Cal-Sag Channel last year has produced positive results: two species of mussels were found.

Help Friends of the Chicago River continue our important wildlife habitat work by symbolically adopting an osprey, one of the many wildlife species that Friends has been working to assist in and along the Chicago River system.