Kestrels, hawks, herons and more spotted during our annual birding paddle, read on for the full lists!

Our River Shallows Project will expand natural native plantings to the full 156-mile river system.

Friends of the Chicago River, along with over 35 organizations, is part of the Coalition for Plastic Reduction, championing this bill to protect our waterways.

Friends of the Chicago River supported passage of this referendum as a member of the Vote Yes for the Lake County Forest Preserves Coalition. The headwaters of the Chicago River start in Lake County.

Attendees overwhelmingly expressed the importance of the summit to build regional collaboration and innovative partnerships to advance critical climate policy and watershed planning projects throughout the region.

For the 2024 general election, Friends of the Chicago River solicited positions from the candidates running to fill three spots as MWRD Commissioners with six-year terms and one spot for a two-year term.

Friends was part of the event that convened 40 scholars, students, and community members, including artists, writers, activists, and designers, to engage in cross-disciplinary creative practice about the challenges facing urban watersheds.

You can take action to curb the use of rat poison by signing a petition calling on the city to reduce the rodenticide budget by 20% and redirect the funds to study alternative ways to reduce the rodent population.

The boat was held at an opportune time, as the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development will soon kick off a process to update the Calumet Area Land Use Plan and Calumet Design Guidelines.

Friends’ policy team played an active role in advocating for this project as part of our work with the city on the updated NPDES permit, which governs 184 city-owned outfalls that discharge into the reaches of the Chicago-Calumet River system and the Des Plaines River in Chicago.