Save the date! FOTP's 40th annual Earth Day Celebration and Clean up will be April 26, 2025.
Check back in early January for details about getting involved. You can also contact Egna Setiawan at [email protected] or (312)854-2803

LIST OF 2024 SITES

Many thanks to our partners at the Chicago Park District for creating a map of clean-up sites with direct links to the volunteer sign-ups. Click here for an alphabetical list of sites. For 2025, we are aiming even higher in terms of participation across all of Chicago. ​

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Earth Day Background

For over 30 years, Friends of the Parks has coordinated park clean ups across Chicago as part of our annual Earth Day Celebration in partnership with the Chicago Park District and Forest Preserves of Cook County. This year's event is Sat, April 20, 2024. As usual, we will be supporting Park Advisory Councils (PACs), park partner organizations and other volunteer groups by providing them with gloves and garbage bags as well as an online event sign-up. In addition, we are accepting requests for mulch, woodchips and fibar, which we will direct to the Park District. 

Last year's first "emerging from the pandemic" Earth Day was a great success with thousands of volunteers spread out across nearly 100 parks in spite of a classic Chicago spring mix of sleet, cutting wind--and some peeks of sunshine. We look forward to even bigger numbers this year!

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Special thank you to our partners and sponsors for their support! Our annual Earth Day Celebration and Clean-up is a team effort and would not have been possible without them.