New Watershed Policy Manager and Events Coordinator join the team.

Run on behalf Friends to support our work to improve and protect the river system for people and wildlife.

Museum associates regaled guests with true and bone-chilling Chicago tales.

Friends demonstrated how teachers can use our Natural Solutions Toll with students to explore the entire watershed, specific communities, or focus on a school's neighborhood, local river access, and parks.

Hosting a session entitled How to Improve Chicago’s Rivers.

From their origins in Lake County, three tributaries flow south into Cook County where they converge to form the North Branch of the Chicago River. 

May we all appreciate the contributions and perspectives of Indigenous peoples that ground us in the history and presence of the river.

Friends is looking for innovative, river-system benefiting, sustainable, and nature-based projects located throughout the Chicago River watershed that exemplify our vision for the river system as a healthy and accessible blue-green corridor. 

The Bridgehouse Museum’s Art Contest reflects Friends’ commitment to not only showcasing the beauty of the Chicago-Calumet River system, but to amplifying creative and constructive community partnerships and building positive relationships between the people of the watershed and our river system.

For more than a decade, Trump Tower Chicago has underreported the rate at which it withdraws water from the Chicago River in reports required by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA).