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Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

CAT Jam Chicago is a local music community that hosts open jam nights in the city. During the summer, they host events every Wednesday at the Wild Mile. CAT Jams are every Wednesday from June - September 7 - 10 pm. Facilitators will help to answer q...

Urban Rivers is often joined by large volunteer groups, usually at the Wild Mile. Sometimes these groups are from fellow nonprofits and sometimes from companies organizing volunteer days for their employees. When the groups want to divide up, with so...

Education is central to our mission to connect community members of all backgrounds to the Chicago River, and one of our most popular educational opportunities are field trips!We offer free field trips to any school or youth group who asks -- Field t...

Join us to load up kayaks on our boat for Bubbly Creek Community Kayaking! We need a few volunteers to help us move our kayaks and gather other materials needed for our Bubbly Creek programming. Whether you are in the area on your lunch break or woul...

Education is central to our mission to connect community members of all backgrounds to the Chicago River, and one of our most popular educational opportunities are field trips!We offer free field trips to any school or youth group who asks -- Field t...

Come help us facilitate free kayaking out of Park 571! We need volunteers to help inexperienced participants of all ages get in and out of kayaks, sign in, and stay safe on the water. We could also use some enthusiastic river-lovers to chat with part...

During the the public kayaking that Urban Rivers co-hosts with Shedd Aquarium we will shuttle gardening volunteers to the Bubbly Creek floating wetlands whenever possible. The main tasks will be pulling weeds and plugging gaps with native plants as ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Kayak the Chicago River at the Wild Mile to pick up trash! Removing trash improves water quality, habitat quality, and creates a more beautiful river for all. It’s a great way to kayak for free and directly improve your local ecosystem. Volunteers ...

Urban Rivers is often joined by large volunteer groups, usually at the Wild Mile. Sometimes these groups are from fellow nonprofits and sometimes from companies organizing volunteer days for their employees. When the groups want to divide up, with so...

We need a docent to help us facilitate s'mores night at the Wild Mile! We will provide all of the materials for s'mores and hotdogs. We just need someone to clean up at the end of the night by putting our table away, extra food back in the office, an...

CAT Jam Chicago is a local music community that hosts open jam nights in the city. During the summer, they host events every Wednesday at the Wild Mile. CAT Jams are every Wednesday from June - September 7 - 10 pm. Facilitators will help to answer q...

Join us to load up kayaks on our boat for Bubbly Creek Community Kayaking! We need a few volunteers to help us move our kayaks and gather other materials needed for our Bubbly Creek programming. Whether you are in the area on your lunch break or woul...

Come help us facilitate free kayaking out of Park 571! We need volunteers to help inexperienced participants of all ages get in and out of kayaks, sign in, and stay safe on the water. We could also use some enthusiastic river-lovers to chat with part...

During the the public kayaking that Urban Rivers co-hosts with Shedd Aquarium we will shuttle gardening volunteers to the Bubbly Creek floating wetlands whenever possible. The main tasks will be pulling weeds and plugging gaps with native plants as ...

Help us run our public fishing events on the Wild Mile! From late April to early November, we'll be hosting public fishing events on the Wild Mile. They're geared towards first-time fisherpeople, so we need LOTS of knowledgable volunteers to help th...

CAT Jam Chicago is a local music community that hosts open jam nights in the city. During the summer, they host events every Wednesday at the Wild Mile. CAT Jams are every Wednesday from June - September 7 - 10 pm. Facilitators will help to answer q...

Join us to load up kayaks on our boat for Bubbly Creek Community Kayaking! We need a few volunteers to help us move our kayaks and gather other materials needed for our Bubbly Creek programming. Whether you are in the area on your lunch break or woul...

Come help us facilitate free kayaking out of Park 571! We need volunteers to help inexperienced participants of all ages get in and out of kayaks, sign in, and stay safe on the water. We could also use some enthusiastic river-lovers to chat with part...

During the the public kayaking that Urban Rivers co-hosts with Shedd Aquarium we will shuttle gardening volunteers to the Bubbly Creek floating wetlands whenever possible. The main tasks will be pulling weeds and plugging gaps with native plants as ...

CAT Jam Chicago is a local music community that hosts open jam nights in the city. During the summer, they host events every Wednesday at the Wild Mile. CAT Jams are every Wednesday from June - September 7 - 10 pm. Facilitators will help to answer q...

Join us to load up kayaks on our boat for Bubbly Creek Community Kayaking! We need a few volunteers to help us move our kayaks and gather other materials needed for our Bubbly Creek programming. Whether you are in the area on your lunch break or woul...

Come help us facilitate free kayaking out of Park 571! We need volunteers to help inexperienced participants of all ages get in and out of kayaks, sign in, and stay safe on the water. We could also use some enthusiastic river-lovers to chat with part...

CAT Jam Chicago is a local music community that hosts open jam nights in the city. During the summer, they host events every Wednesday at the Wild Mile. CAT Jams are every Wednesday from June - September 7 - 10 pm. Facilitators will help to answer q...