MWRD resolution acknowledges the Chicago River as one of our most valuable and prominent natural resources.

Excited volunteers are mobilizing for Friends’ large-scale spring litter cleanup and restoration event. 

Artist Ben Miller painted a portrait of the Chicago River in reverse using a fly rod and reel, a process he calls “fly cast painting.” 

New team members help expand our resources and strategies for watershed planning and equitable partnerships across the watershed.

The awareness campaign engages the public about the importance of everyday actions in water use to help eliminate threats to the river system and Lake Michigan posed by combined sewer overflows.

Trahms is a director at William Blair where she works with companies in the environmental services sector.

The parcels that have been selected are some of the largest remaining river edge sites in Chicago and provide an intergenerational opportunity to get riverfront development right.

Since 1992 volunteers have removed an epic 1.9 million pounds of litter and invasive plant material from the river and its banks.

Friends of the Chicago River would like to see the downtown tradition of dyeing the river green evolve into something that embraces the vastly improved health of the river system.