New to paddling? Come out to enjoy the river, learn the basics of paddling and take your first spin on the river with on the water safety monitoring from Friends. And learn about Friends' work to install native plants along riverbanks to create healthy homes for animals, stabilize river shorelinse, and protect the river from the impacts of climate change.

Join us as we travel down the Chicago River this fall at the 11th Annual Bridgehouse Museum Cruise. 

Join us in an exclusive after-hours sunset and moonlit paddle through the Skokie Lagoons.

Celebrate the river’s renaissance by traversing this river trail with hundreds of fellow runners and revelers at the Race for the River 5K.

Chicago Ornithological Society and Friends of the Chicago River team up to offer a unique way experience the magic of migration! 

Chicago Ornithological Society and Friends of the Chicago River team up to offer a unique way experience the magic of migration on the Little Calumet River.