Proceeds from the special cruise benefit important programming at the Bridgehouse Museum, including educational field trips for Chicago Public School students who learn about the river’s ecology and history and how the once abused Chicago-Calumet River system is now home to abundant wildlife including all kinds of turtles and river otters.
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Choosing to invest in the restoration, revitalization, and advocacy of the river and its watershed helps to ensure that the renaissance will robustly continue, and more river otters will call our river system home.
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The monthly advocacy steps are an invitation to engage and educate the public to get to know the river system as well as what they can do for it and why it matters for us all.
Continue Reading »Since 1979, Friends has been working to improve the health of the Chicago River system for the benefit of people and wildlife and by doing so, has laid the foundation for the river to be a beautiful, continuous, easily accessible corridor of open space in the Chicago region.
121 W. Wacker Drive
Suite 1700
Chicago, IL 60601
McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum
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