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“Prairie Boat,” a new gathering space at Beaubien Woods, highlights changes and updates at the often neglected site on the Southeast Side.

A career development initiative has taken root on Chicago’s South Side for young people who want to improve the health of their community.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration has promised to plant 75,000 trees as part of an initiative called “Our Roots Chicago,” and advocates are hopeful about a city where the benefits of

While Chicago figures out how to make its urban forest more equitable, some residents are taking tree matters into their own hands.

Members of Evanston Fight for Black Lives and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago discussed plans to create a sustainable community garden and freshwater conservation in the Great Lakes region at a virtual panel Friday. The event was part of Citizens’ Greener Evanston’s “Earth Week for Everyone” series, which took place Thursday through Saturday in honor of Earth month. EFBL organizer Emma Barreto said she wants sustainable living to be a community project rather than an individual one. For EFBL, sustainability means building a community garden in a vacant l...