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.

As the turbid roiling of the reversed Chicago River grew calm and steady, another barrier had been overcome. Life around water had improved. Originally Published: October 29, 2013 at 1:00 PM CDT ...

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.

A modular plan for an eco-park along the Chicago River’s highly polluted North Branch Canal is getting $1.4 million more in city funding so designers can implement a two-block floating boardwalk.

Installing barriers on Chicago's river and canal system is relatively cheap. Figuring out how to rebuild the divide requires the focus of a surgeon.

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 river reversed direction because the 30-mile-long canal that linked with the Mississippi-bound Des Plaines River was at a lower elevation than Lake Michigan.

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 Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal looked like a crime scene on this gray morning of Dec. 3, 2009. ... "Water in Chicago River Now Resembles Liquid," a Times headline deadpanned.

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.