You can stand-up paddleboard at sunset, bring your dog to Morton Arboretum, attend the 4th Annual Wild Mile Block Party and ...

The canal, built more than 120 years ago, connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. From there, the barged trash would have traveled to the Illinois River to Henry, which has a ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Local scientists are trying to transform the Chicago River into a wildlife sanctuary. It's all part of an ongoing effort to restore biodiversity in the Chicago area.

In recent years, the Chicago River itself has undergone a renaissance, ... 1904, laborers take a break during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal extension.

Friends of the Chicago River said more than 2,500 volunteers are participating in the 32nd ... Donley is the volunteer site coordinator for the clean-up at Chicago's Canal Origins Park on the ...

The Illinois & Michigan Canal, opened in 1848, connected the Chicago River to the Mississippi River, facilitating trade from the East Coast. ( Here’s how urban parks are bringing nature close to ...

The famed snapping turtle, dubbed “Chonkosaurus” by internet commentators when pictures of her basking on a Chicago River pylon first went viral in summer 2023, has reappeared.

The Chicago River project opened in 1900. During the 1920s, the dilution method of sewage treatment offered by the canal proved inadequate for the growing Chicago metro area, and treatment plants ...

Chemical analyses and bacteriological cultures would seem to show that the Illinois River, with 250,000 cubic feet of water from the canal discharging into it, is much better than it was before ...