In this special giving opportunity, you can turn your $25 gift into $50, $300 into $600, and celebrate Earth Month.

Fifty sites are already full but we need volunteers at other key sites.

This legislation helps stop plastic pellets before they enter the watershed.

Friends of the Chicago River spent several incredible days recently collaborating with artist Ben Miller to paint the Chicago River from the Riveralk plaza in front of our McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum.

Three ways you can join us in taking action today to support clean water and a healthy river system.

The Big Fish Ball is an elegant evening aboard the Odyssey Chicago River, offering guests a unique vantage point to experience the river’s transformation firsthand while enjoying a bounty of lovely food and festive beverages.

At a time when Chicago is emerging as a global leader in the movement for swimmable and ecologically healthy urban waterways, we believe the focus should be on celebrating the river in a manner that recognizes it as a natural body of water, and the remarkable environmental recovery it represents.

Cruising the Chicago River under the shimmering lights of the downtown skyline is an exciting way to celebrate achievements, discuss our upcoming goals, and further our mission with shared action and advocacy.

The massive litter cleanup and restoration event also kicks off this year’s litter removal efforts under Friends’ Litter Free Chicago-Calumet River program, which includes more litter cleanup events on land and from the water.