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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.

��һ�Թ� 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 ��һ�Թ�’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.

An osprey has been sighted on a nesting platform installed by the ��һ�Թ� at Beaubien Woods Forest Preserves on the city’s South Side, reflecting improved health of the Little Calumet River.

Wayne Schimpff was one of the volunteers at the first Chicago River Day in 1992. Much has changed for the better, he recalls.