Executive Vice President of Aon joins Friends' Board of Directors.

The McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum is open for the 2021 season.

Overflow Action Awareness Month showed how rainfall can contribute to CSOs and the detrimental effects CSO’s have on public and environmental health. The awareness month also provided tips on what individuals and families can do to conserve water use.

The River Reporter covers all the latest news of Friends’ programs and projects.

Teacher uses Chicago River to tap student’s creativity

CBS 2 News highlighted the advocacy and action of Friends and our partners to improve and protect our waterways as Friends prepares for Chicago River Day on May 8, 2021.

Check out some ways Friends’ staff helps the environment every day in their lives.

An in-depth story from NBC 5 Chicago explores how climate change impacts our daily lives and creates more intense rainfalls that can trigger combined sewer overflows.

Award-winning public television writer, producer, and program host Geoffrey Baer and Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert, are among the guests on Friends’ new podcast, Inside, Out & About.

In March, Friends of the Chicago River, Openlands, and the Sierra Club Illinois Chapter called on Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Plumbers Union Local 130 to forgo the annual green dyeing of the Chicago River downtown by creating a new tradition that respects the river.