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2020/2021 SEED GRANT APPLICATION IS OPEN​

A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act of living produces a hundred more seeds, life, by living, multiplies itself. It is forever Becoming More, it must do so, if it continues to be at all.”  ― Wallace D. Wattle

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OUR UPDATES 

​ Army Corps of Engineers Operating CDF Pollution Dump on the 10th Ward Lakefront Without a Permit 

June 29, 2021 

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Friends of the Parks' Statement on DuSable Park and Recognition for Jean Baptiste Point DuSable and his wife, Kitihawa

June 23, 2021 

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