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​Green Open Spaces

This page highlights Southeast Chicago Green Open Spaces, which include city, county,  and state parks, forest preserves, and community gardens.  New parks are now being established on what had long been blighted industrial land within the city, transforming blighted "brownfield space" into reviving natural space.  
With the collaboration of dedicated environmental agencies and community groups, Nature is accomplishing in years what has often taken decades without such collaboration.  Thus, open space in Southeast Chicago is rapidly emulating the rebirth of Krakatoa, in the late 19th century, or the jungle-reclamation of the vast Incan and Mayan empires of earlier centuries.  
(A more-extensive gallery of “green” sites may be seen on our sister site, Calumet Region Sites: http://calregionsites.com/green-summit-tour-sites-/#previous-photo)
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BUFFALO SENIORS INSPIRATION GARDEN, 8250 S. BUFFALO AVENUE -- photo by Kevin P.Murphy
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BUSH COMMUNITY GARDEN OF HOPE, 8459 S. BUFFALO AVENUE -- photo by Kevin P. Murphy
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DEAD STICK POND - 122nd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue -- Photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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EGGERS GROVE SIGNAGE at 112th Street and the Burnham Greenway -- photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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HEGEWISCH MARSH -- VERNAL POOLS -- photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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HEGEWISCH MARSH SIGN-- photo by Kevin P. Murphy
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INDIAN RIDGE MARSH -- 122nd Street and Torrence Avenue -- photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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KINDERMORGAN PRAIRIE-INDIAN RIDGE MARSH -- 122nd Street and Torrence Avenue -- photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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LAKE CALUMET -- CANOEING 1 -- photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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Lake Calumet -- Canoeing 2 -- photo by Joann Podkul Murphy
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MIRELES MEMORIAL GARDEN/VICTORY GARDEN -- 8911 S. Exchange Avenue -- photo by Kevin P. Murphy
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POWDERHORN LAKE CANOEING -- photo by Kevin P. Murphy
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WOLF LAKE CANOE-HANDLING FAMILIARIZATION SESSIONS
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WOLF LAKE I.D.N.R. EDUCATION CENTER DEDICATION -- William W. Powers Education Center, 12949 Avenue O -- photo by Kevin P. Murph

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  • Southeast Chicago Resources
  • Serendipity