Located on Northerly Island, 12th Street Beach features a new beach house, and is an excellent place to explore nature with its nature center and bird sanctuary and hospital.

Hot beach in the summertime with excellent, unobstructed views of the city skyline and lots of available parking.

The south side's favorite beach, the 63rd Street Beach offers a large parking lot and rehabbed historic beach house.

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool is a historic nature garden and lily pool located in Lincoln Park, at the southeast corner of Fullerton and Cannon Drives. Originally built in 1889 for raising tropical water lilies, the lily pool was redesigned in the prairie style of landscape architecture during the 1930’s by Alfred Caldwell.

Discover the 75-acres of magnificent gardens that enhance Chicago’s parks. Each year, the Chicago Park District and Moore Landscaping, Inc. work to create natural master pieces throughout various areas of the city's parks.

Marquette Park's Ashburn Prairie is a three and a half acre prairie situated along the edge of the Park’s lagoon, south of Mann Street and east of Kedzie Avenue.

Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary offers eight acres of dedicated bird habitat in Lincoln Park, just east of the totem pole near Addison Street.

Burnham Nature Sanctuary, nearly twelve acres of prairie and woodland habitat, can be found on the west side of Lake Shore Drive in Burnham Park near 47th Street.

The southern-most beach in the Chicago Park District, Calumet Beach offers a large, expansive beach for the community.

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