Urban Rivers

In addition to the ~800 humans in attendance at the Block Party, we were joined by various clades of river wildlife! Everyone loves a party! 🎉🌱🐢

August already???? Fear not - we still have a ton of fun programming coming up! Register at the link in our bio!

Beers? Consumed. 🍻
Turtles? Sighted. 🐢
Cool merch? Purchased. 👕
River facts? Learned. 🌱
Friends? Made. 👯‍♀️

Thank you all for making the fifth annual Wild Mile Block Party a massive hit!! If you had a great time, come by the Wild Mile again this summer - it’s open 24/7, and we have free events year-round!

P.S. - didn’t get your hands on a heron shirt? You can now buy them on our website! 👀

Our Wild Mile Block Party is coming up on July 19th, and it’s only possible because of our awesome sponsors!!!

🔵🐥Great Blue Heron Sponsor: Structured Development

🦫Baby Beaver Sponsors: Blue Star Properties ✨ and Two North Riverside Plaza

🐟 Largemouth Bass Sponsors: Shedd Aquarium Rent Onni The Urban Canopy

Mark your calendars, and get your butts to the Wild Mile on July 19th! RSVP at the link in our bio!!

Tfw you’re an apex river predator, morphologically unchanged for 90 million years, with a 210-newton bite force… and somehow find yourself being manhandled by some interns in a lime-green pontoon boat 😵‍💫🐢

We’re dipping our toes into some herpetology by way of local turtle population surveys! We’ll be working with the wonderful Laura Guderyahn and Kathryn Greene to establish a survey protocol that we can use to study turtles (and other amphibians and reptiles) along the Wild Mile and broader Chicago River. Friends Of The Chicago River will also be using these surveys as a baseline for potential future restoration work.

Shoutout to Urban Rivers intern Selma for her bravery in turtle-wrangling!!

A jam-packed July - a field trip to the National Museum of Mexican Art TONIGHT, a full month of Wild Mile Workshops, and the Fifth Annual Wild Mile Block Party!! RSVP at UrbanRivers.org/Events (link in our bio)!!!

Send this to someone you’d migrate through Texas (in search of fresh hackberry leaves) with! 🌸🐝🦋🐞🦟🪰