Container Class at Kilbourn Park 4/25 10:00 AM $10.00

Celebrate by Coming to a Class at Kilbourn Park on Container Gardening on Saturday, April 25th from 10-noon.

The Jackson Park Natural Areas Project: An Ecological Restoration Designed in the Olmsted Style 4/9 North Park Nature Center

Join Lauren Umek, Project Manager for the Chicago Park District, as she discusses how a team of ecologists, landscape architects, engineers, planners and historians worked together to restore Jackson Park.

Getting to Know Chicago’s Smallest Neighborhood: The Villa

Getting to Know Chicago’s Smallest Neighborhood: The Villa

Carlson’s Soup and Bread fundraiser 3/1 5:00 PM

Patterned after a popular winter event at The Hideout Bar, Soup & Bread for Carlson will be held at the Irving Park Lutheran Church gym, 4057 N. Harding Ave.

Growing Tomatoes: The World’s Most Popular Fruit 3/7

Growing Tomatoes: The World’s Most Popular Fruit

Peterson Garden Project

The sign-up period for one of the four-foot by eight-foot plots runs through Feb. 27. Cost is $75.

Historic Bungalow Association host do-it-yourself seminars

The Historic Chicago Bungalow Association will host a series of seminars in February designed to help even the most hapless weekend warriors whip their vintage home into shape, officials said.

The city will start collecting bagged leaves this week!

The city is sending out trucks specifically to collect bagged leaves and yard waste in each neighborhood. A truck should come within a week of calling 311

Horner Park Riverbank Restoration Project Finally Given OK to Move Forward

The riverbank restoration project that launched a “border war” between neighbors to the east and west of Horner Park finally has been given the green light by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

“Hot Doug’s: The Book”

Countless Chicagoans have spent lunchtime at Doug Sohn’s iconic restaurant, Hot Doug’s.

But almost no one knows Sohn skips that meal every day he works.