Our annual summer cruise fundraiser for our McCormick Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum was perfect: great weather, cool drinks, delicious food, interesting speakers and terrific guests. Take a look!

We were doing some scouting recently at River Park, 5100 N. Francisco Ave., and spotted these black-crowned night herons. They're gorgeous.

Hundreds of Lizard's tails were planted to improve fish habitat, bank integrity and water quality.

"Allowing the Trump International Hotel and Tower to continue to operate a system that traps and kills fish and other aquatic wildlife flies in the face of the momentum and investment surrounding a vibrant, healthy, revitalized Chicago River,” said Friends Executive Director Margaret Frisbie said.

The Chicago River Blue Awards honor the best in river-sensitive projects.

The Big Fish Ball of 2018 raised some $280,000.

Friends of the Chicago River staffers went on a little fishing trip recently. No poles, though. This was an expedition not to catch and keep fish but to count them.

Our major fundraiser gala, Big Fish Ball, is fast appproaching -- and we need your assistance as a volunteer. Here's how.

Some 2,000 volunteers turned out on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at some 70 sites across the Chicago area for the Friends of the Chicago River’s annual cleanup day, removing plastic, cans, tires and other trash.

We've got lots of great photos!

Vintage home movies showing Chicagoans enjoying the water can be seen from the bridge through the portal window facing north of our McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum, starting Saturday May 12, 2018.