Edgewater Gateway
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Burling Park
View NeighborSpace in a larger map Burling Park is a small neighborhood park in Lakeview. It includes a substantial lawn, benches, ornamental trees, and protective fencing. It is an ideal spot for the many young families in the community, and has become a focal point for the neighborhood. Activities featured in Burling Park include storytime… Read more Burling Park
Joe-Ella Williams Memorial Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map This beautiful garden features summer annuals, a winding path, beautiful shrubs and trees, and many perennials and bulbs. This garden won the Mayor’s Landscape Award in 2000 and the Neighborhood Leadership Award in March 2007. In 2015, Alderman Michael Scott, Jr., NeighborSpace, daughters Ernestine and Jereline Williams, granddaughter Sheryce… Read more Joe-Ella Williams Memorial Garden
Fulton Street Flower and Vegetable Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map Fulton Garden blog The Fulton Street Flower and Vegetable Garden is a community garden on Chicago’s West Side. It is home to a large greenhouse that is an important resource for Chicago’s greening community.
Windy City Harvest Youth Farm in North Lawndale
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External site The Windy City Harvest Youth Farm in North Lawndale (formerly known as Green Youth Farm) program offers students the opportunity to learn all aspects of organic farming — from planting seeds to managing a hive of bees, from cooking with the food they grow to selling it… Read more Windy City Harvest Youth Farm in North Lawndale
Kenneth Street Farm
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External website This garden was established in 2008 at 215 N Kenneth St by Chicago Botanic Gardens because they wanted to help serve the community. Windy City Harvest is a program, delivered by the Chicago Botanic Garden in partnership with Richard J. Daley College, that trains adults in sustainable horticulture… Read more Kenneth Street Farm
Unity Park
View NeighborSpace in a larger map Year Established: 2000 Local Leader: Marion Perkins Community Group: Unity Park Committee NeighborSpace Partnership: 2002
El Paseo Community Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External site In February of 2009, five residents founded Growing Station (now known as El Paseo) community garden. They wanted to grow their own food and contribute to their community. They began searching for a vacant lot to build an organic community vegetable garden, eventually asking Alderman Danny Solis… Read more El Paseo Community Garden
Riverbank Neighbors
View NeighborSpace in a larger map External site Riverbank Neighbors was organized in 1993-4 to try to fix up the east bank of the river from Montrose to Berteau. It was a dump: barren, eroded, and a hiding place for rascals of all types. Neighbors began by removing tons of debris, trimming back vines, building… Read more Riverbank Neighbors
Peace in the Valley Garden
View NeighborSpace in a larger map The garden was founded in 1996 by Rose McNutt with the help of NeighborSpace and Greencorps Chicago. Rose lived two houses down from a vacant lot that was being filled with junk and she didn’t want to look at it any longer. She wanted to turn the lot into… Read more Peace in the Valley Garden
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