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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Illinois is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums ... University of Chicago Botanic ...
The Lincoln Park Conservatory (1.2 ha / 3 acres) is a conservatory and botanical garden in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois.The conservatory is located at 2391 North Stockton Drive just south of Fullerton Avenue, west of Lake Shore Drive, and part of the Lincoln Park, Chicago community area.
Garfield Park Conservatory, located in Garfield Park in Chicago, is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States.Often referred to as "landscape art under glass", the Garfield Park Conservatory occupies approximately 4.5 acres (18,000 m 2) inside and out and contains a number of permanent plant exhibits incorporating specimens from around the world, including some cycads ...
Lurie Garden is a 2.5-acre (10,000 m 2) garden located at the southern end of Millennium Park in the Loop area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Designed by GGN ( Gustafson Guthrie Nichol ), Piet Oudolf , and Robert Israel , [ 3 ] it opened on July 16, 2004.
The Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, United States, is a public garden [1] and outdoor museum with a library, herbarium, and program in tree research including the Center for Tree Science. [2] Its grounds, covering 1,700 acres (6.9 square kilometres), include cataloged collections of trees and other living plants, gardens, and restored ...
Garfield Park is a 184-acre (0.74 km 2) urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney in the 1870s and is the oldest of the three original parks developed by the West Side parks commission on the Chicago park and boulevard plan (Humboldt Park, Garfield, and Douglass Park).
A 1.6-mile (2.6 km) asphalt bike path runs to the west of the lagoons between Willow Road and Tower Road, and a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) loop encircles the lagoons between Tower Road and Dundee Road. This extends the 20-mile (32 km) North Branch Bicycle Trail to the Chicago Botanic Gardens.