{"id":13267,"date":"2019-04-15T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?page_id=13267"},"modified":"2019-04-15T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T17:09:25","slug":"river-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?page_id=13267","title":{"rendered":"River Day Clean-Up May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Register Today to Help Beautify the Ward Park Riverfront!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13268 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ruby-Dragonfly-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/>The Friends of the Chicago\u00a0River\u2019s annual clean-up event,\u00a0<strong>Chicago River Day, <\/strong>will take place on Saturday, May 11, 2019 from\u00a09:00 a.m. to\u00a0noon.<\/p>\n<p>Join us in beautiful A. Montgomery Ward Park and volunteer to help Friends of the Chicago River, the\u00a0Rotary Club of Chicago\u00a0Cosmopolitan and the River North Residents Association\u00a0maintain the river as a natural resource that provides a place to play,\u00a0relax and enjoy nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you, or your friends and\u00a0family, are interested in volunteering, please register by May 5th so\u00a0that we can plan for sufficient supplies. \u00a0As\u00a0a thank you gift, volunteers receive a Chicago River Day T-shirt plus an\u00a0invitation to\u00a0after-parties hosted by Metropolitan Brewing Company and\u00a0Blue Island Beer Company.\u00a0By registering, you agree to RNRA&#8217;s <a href=\"..\/privacy-and-terms\/\">Privacy Policy and Terms of Use<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/chicago-river-day-2019-montgomery-ward-park-tickets-58440735814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12855\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/register-now-button-1-300x95.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoparkdistrict.com\/parks-facilities\/ward-montgomery-park\">Ward Park<\/a> is located at 630\u00a0N Kingsbury Street at the corner of Kingsbury and Erie.<\/p>\n<p>For 40 years, Friends of\u00a0the Chicago River has been working to improve the health of the river for\u00a0the benefit of people, plants\u00a0and animals. Spanning the entire\u00a0156-mile Chicago River system and its watershed, it works to lay the\u00a0foundation for the river\u00a0to be a beautiful, continuous and easily\u00a0accessible corridor of open space in the Chicago region.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s River Day\u00a0mascot, the Ruby Meadowhawk dragonfly is one of the many species of wildlife\u00a0that call the Chicago\u00a0River system home. Agile and efficient,\u00a0with amazing vision and focus, it is a key indicator of ecological\u00a0quality, as it needs\u00a0clean water to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Chicago\u00a0River is excited to celebrate its 40th anniversary of bringing the\u00a0river to life. \u00a0For more information visit\u00a0Friends of the\u00a0Chicago River at <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagoriver.org\/\">ChicagoRiver.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Register Today to Help Beautify the Ward Park Riverfront! The Friends of the Chicago\u00a0River\u2019s annual clean-up event,\u00a0Chicago River Day, will take place on Saturday, May 11, 2019 from\u00a09:00 a.m. to\u00a0noon. Join us in beautiful A. Montgomery Ward Park and volunteer to help Friends of the Chicago River, the\u00a0Rotary Club of Chicago\u00a0Cosmopolitan and the River North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}