How Green is Chicago’s Tenth Ward? Help us count the ways.
Green Buildings [Partial to total sustainable design]
Permeable streets 108th Street from State Line Road to Avenue D
Harry B. Deas 4th District Police Station [thermal panels on roof], 2255 E. 103rd
St.
Villa Guadalupe Senior Residence [solar panels, roof garden], 3201 East 91st St.
Vodak East Side Library, 3710 E. 106th Street
Claretian-built Energy-efficient Affordable Housing [Various sites in South
Chicago]
Rainbow Apparel, [LEED Certified] 9046 S. Commercial Avenue
Victory Center: Assisted/Ind. Senior Residences[LEED Silver] 3251 E. 92nd St.
7th and 10th Ward Streets and San. Building [LEED Gold] 9160 S. Mackinaw
Green Gardens
Artists’ Garden, 8951 S. Brandon
Bush Homeowners and Tenants Association Garden, 8457-59 S. Buffalo
Senior Inspirational Garden [7th Ward], 8250 S. Buffalo
South Chicago Senior Citizens’ Garden, 3130 E. 92nd Street
8805 S. Exchange Block Club Garden
Victory Garden, 8911 S. Exchange
10549 S. Hoxie Prairie Garden
South Chicago People’s Park [Claretian Associates], 9100 S. Buffalo
Advocate Trinity Hospital Roof Garden [8th Ward], 2320 E. 93rd St.
GreenCorps Gardens – Bowen Campus, [8th Ward] 2710 East 89th Street
Green Open Space/Natural Areas
Eggers Woods Forest Preserve, 112th and Avenue E
Burnham Greenway, North end at 104th and Indianapolis Blvd.
Hegewisch Marsh, 132nd and Torrence
Wolf Lake William W. Powers Conservation Area, 126th and Avenue O
Powderhorn Lake and Prairie, 138th and Brainerd
Lake Michigan/Calumet Park Beach, 99th and Crilly Drive
Marian Byrnes Natural Area, 103rd and Van Vlissingen
Help with Recycling
Plastic bag collection boxes in local stores and businesses
Battery drop-off centers: 10th Ward Alderman’s Office, 3522 E. 106th St.
Ink Cartridge drop-off centers: Office Depot stores
BigBelly Solar Compactors [Commercial Avenue and Calumet Park]
Everlights [Electronic equipment], 9901 S. Torrence
Calumet and Rowan Park/Strack & Van Til/Hammond Environmental Center bins
Pending Projects
USGBC LEED Neighborhood Development Plan approved 4/2010
Ford Calumet Environmental Center, 134th and Torrence
CDOE Energy Assistance/Weatherization Program
Lake Calumet Vision Plan
Park 503, 89th and 90th and Mackinaw – Growing Power site
Calumet Ecological Park and Friends of the Parks “Last 4 Miles”
Supportive Organizations
10th Ward Alderman’s Office
South Chicago Chamber of Commerce
Claretian Associates, Inc.
Chicago Department of Planning
Chicago Department of the Environment
10th Ward Green Summit Partners
Arnold Mireles School Green Team
CDOE Chicago Conservation Corps [C3]
CDOE Southeast Regional C3 Network
CDOE Student Conservation Clubs
Southeast Environmental Task Force
Calumet Ecological Park Association
Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative
Calumet Green Corps
Blacks in Green
Delta Institute
BOLD/Calumet Is My Backyard [CIMBY]
Calumet Stewardship Initiative
Field Museum Calumet Environmental Education Program
Alliance for the Great Lakes’ Adopt-a-Beach Project
Additional Natural Areas and Resources on the South Side/
Suburbs and in NW Indiana
Dan Ryan Woods
Whistler Woods
Kickapoo Prairie and Woods
Beaubien Woods and Flatfoot Lake
Dolton Prairie
Green Lake
Sand Ridge Nature Center
Hammond Parks Foundation
Gibson Woods Wild Ones
Dunes Learning Center
Taltree Arboretum
Shirley Heinze Land Trust
© 2010 Kevin Murphy and Joann Podkul, Calumet Stewardship Initiative,
12/3/2010
For updates, please check www.calumetstewardshipinitiative.org