Volunteers will help remove trash, fix up playgrounds, and lay mulch at more than 170 public parks citywide. Pope Francis ...

Earth Day is on Tuesday, but the Chicago Park District is looking for volunteers for its annual parks cleanup event happening ...

The land was given to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, only to be sold out from under them. Now, Gov. JB Pritzker has ...

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Now in its 12th year, the event serves to give families a safe place to enjoy themselves, but specifically kids, said Cornelius Parks, lead pastor at Harvest Worship Center Ministries.

To mark the 40th anniversary of Friends of the Parks’ citywide Earth Day cleanups, the non-profit organization reached out to WGN Weekend Morning News to help spread the word ...

“Many highly sought after programs are available in other parks across the city,” according to the Chicago Park District’s website. “If you can be flexible on your location, you’ll have a greater ...

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(The Hill) — The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad. For years, the Parks’ page on the ...

The city of Gary continues to move forward with its jewel parks construction after the council approved the fund’s budget at its Tuesday meeting. Eight council members voted to approve salary ...

If the garden was to be displaced, Helphand said the plan would likely be to work with the gardeners to look for new land, with possible outposts being the Chicago Parks District or other public space ...

Trump and other conservatives have railed against what they see as inappropriate focus by national parks and other historical sites on America's history of enslavement, land theft and discrimination.