Your support benefits important programming at the Bridgehouse Museum such as educational field trips for students to learn about the river’s ecology and history.

We invite you take a survey to contribute to our new strategic plan for 2024-2028.

Our 10th Annual Autumn Cruise of the Chicago River benefits the education and public outreach programs of our Bridgehouse Museum.

Moonlight Sparkles for Otter Society Soiree.

Free Teacher Workshop Features Natural Solutions Tool.

If we raise $7,000 for restoration at Harms Woods, the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation will match it 3:1 for an additional $21,000 gift.

The overwhelming sentiment of comments at public meeting was that the process shaping the future of this important river-edge site lacked imaginative, community-centered, and visionary thinking. 

Students from our Chicago River Schools Network have been finding red swamp crayfish, which resemble mini-lobsters, for years on field trips to the North Side of the Chicago.

Haunt the halls of our 103-year-old landmark, five-story Bridgehouse while raising money for health and protection of the Chicago River.