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Chicago Sun-Times – Conservation group seeks better protection for city’s iconic lakefront

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons(WBEZ)- Conservationists push for stronger protections for Chicago’s lakefront

Bob Dolgan – Chicago’s lakefront: Forever open, clear and free?

CBS News CHICAGO – Chicago program develops school playgrounds that capture stormwater, prevent floods.

Crain’s Chicago Business – The Chicago lakefront deserves ‘no little plans’

CBS News Chicago – Second Space to Grow playground now available at west side elementary school

Shaw Local – Leaders mark huge expansion of national wildlife refuge straddling Illinois, Wisconsin

Durbin visits Hackmatack Wildlife Refugee to celebrate expansion

ABC 7 Chicago – Our Chicago: Space To Grow

Will County News – Hadley Valley Preserve celebration to mark 20 Years of wetland restoration work tied to O’Hare Airport expansion

Country Herald – Will County, Illinois – Forest Preserve, Openlands celebrate 20 years of wetland restoration from O’Hare expansion funds

Shaw Local – Hadley Valley Preserve in Joliet ‘an awesome success story’ of wetland restoration

Chicago Tribune – From gray to green: Across Chicago, dozens of concrete schoolyards transformed into community hubs and flooding solutions

WJOL – Openlands restored 530 acres of wetland

Chicago Sun-Times – The O’Hare expansion turned into a bonanza for wild spaces in Illinois

Daily Herald – ‘Conservation takes action’: How volunteers restored 589 acres at Palatine Forest Preserve

WTTW Urban Nature: Did O’Hare’s expansion actually help wetlands?

Chicago Sun-Times: The political journey of rail-trails captured in ‘From Rails to Trails’

Chicago Tribune | Lake County News-Sun – Waukegan church plants trees in its neighborhood: ‘Trees offer us hope’

Birds in My Neighborhood student fieldtrip

A new chapter ahead for Birds in My Neighborhood  

Openlands and Windy City Bird Lab are excited to share an important update about the …

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