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)
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)