Among Great Rivers

Our Great Rivers lays out a timeline and benchmark for success and excitingly, many of the goals mirror Friends' mission and vision and will help us achieve our goal of making ours one of the world's greatest metropolitan river systems. 

Friends of the Chicago River was pleased to share in the announcement of Our Great Rivers, a vision and acition agenda that highlights ideas and strategies that will contribute to the continued improvement of the Chicago, Calumet, and Des Plaines rivers where they flow through the City of Chicago. A segment on Chicago Tonight with Friends' executive director, Margaret Frisbie, hightlighted how Our Great Rivers will be a useful tool for Friends and other organizations that have been working to improve and protect these rivers.