Learn more and get involved in our current policy efforts to create lasting protections for the Chicago-Calumet River system for all people, water, and wildlife.

From April 19 through April 30, your gift will be TRIPLED, up to $20,000.

Help support Friends’ public policy and planning work, education programs, and on the ground projects.

In 2005, Friends opened the Michigan Avenue Fish Hotel; it was the first floating island installed in the Midwest.

The elegant evening was a joyful tribute to our collective impact,.

Friends of the Chicago River joins with 18 other leading environmental, social justice, and conservation organizations to express our appreciation and support for the dedicated public servants of the EPA.

The ordinance aims to end city development patterns that further burden communities of color with harmful pollution.

Join us at a Chicago City Council hearing on environmental and health damage caused by single-use plastics on April 23.

Take action now to tell the EPA that our waterways deserve protection.

Friends of the Chicago River has been working with scientists from the Forest Preserves of Cook County to increase nesting sites available to osprey along the Chicago-Calumet River system.