Eat it: The Nature Museum serves up food for thought

Mar. 23, 2013
The first thing you see upon entering the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s new exhibit on food is a 19th century hand plow, its modesty a bit disarming as the climax of a walk-up whose walls are splashed with projections of grain nodding majestically in the wind.

Volunteers restore Chicago's prairie

Jan. 8, 2013
Beaubien Forest Preserve is an unlikely swath of wet prairies amid the industrial patchwork of Chicago’s far Southeast Side. But invasive species have harmed the preserve's rich biodiversity. 

Native prairie plants come back to Illinois

Dec. 13, 2012
Native plants including rare species are coming back under power lines in a research project in northern Illinois.The Chicago Botanic Garden, ComEd and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources are working together to convert overgrown utility corridors into native landscapes.On research plots at