Best Garden At Chicago Near Me

4worldlovers: By Laura Ekasetya, Jo ana Kubiak | Garden Design, Garden Update, Piet Oudolf


The Oudolf Garden Detriot is the newest public Piet Oudolf project in the United States. As this site comes to life there is a renewed appreciation for the work, investment, talent, and team it takes to make these gardens. This amazing project began when the Garden...


By | Design Narrative, Ecological Horticulture, Garden Design, Garden Design Elements, Garden Management, Garden Update, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, How-To Lurie Garden, Lurie Garden's Story, Piet Oudolf, Pollinators


Maps that are rich in detail help us communicate the complexity and evolution of our dynamic garden. Lurie Garden is intended to be an ever-changing, dynamic planting. The evolving relationships between plant groups and their role in the overall design requires...


By Jo ana Kubiak | Climate Change, Ecological Horticulture, Garden Management, Garden Update, Pollinators, Wildlife

4worldlovers: Step through the Prairie-style Fullerton gate and enter a hidden garden of unmatched beauty. Only bird songs and the sound of a gentle waterfall break the restful silence. Follow the stone walk encircling the lily pool and discover a pavilion, council ring, and diverse native plantings. This is the vision of landscape architect Alfred Caldwell: a hidden garden for the people of Chicago designed to resemble a river meandering through a great Midwestern prairie.

Air and Water Show Weekend: Friday, August 18th – Sunday, August, 20th

The site of the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool was originally part of a Victorian garden built in 1889 that displayed tropical lilies and other aquatic plants. When the Victorian-style garden fell out of popularity, the Lily Pool fell into disrepair until 1936 when Alfred Caldwell redesigned the pool and its surrounding area.

By the 1950s, Caldwell’s 1936 Lily Pool design deteriorated and was loaned to the Lincoln Park Zoo as an avian exhibit known as “The Rookery”. This caused further deterioration and , eventually, the zoo no longer required it. The Chicago Park District closed the site to the public for many years. Weedy trees and shrubs grew unchecked, stonework broke, hillsides eroded, wildflowers died, and the pool filled with debris until the Lincoln Park Conservancy came to its rescue. We raised &1.1 million in private funding for the project and the Chicago Park District allocated $1.3 million from its capital budget.

City of Chicago Office of the Mayor, 2003 Chicago Landmark Award for Preservation Excellence – Landscape Restoration.

The American Institute of Architects, Chicago Chapter – 2003 Distinguished Building Award – Special Recognition for Restoration of Pavilion and Entry Gate

4worldlovers: Completed in 1996, the Cancer Survivors’ Garden is considered a hidden treasure in the heart of the city. Located on the east side of the park, the garden provides views of Lake Michigan and the Field Museum of Natural History. On the north end, two forty-foot tall granite columns flank a large open metal pavilion and flowers line this area in the spring and summer. The garden was designed to be a celebration of life and give hope in the midst of a memorable garden setting. The contemplative garden design represents a metaphorical process of recognition and self-knowledge that is crucial to healing. The three main garden rooms represent the three main states of healing: acceptance, support and celebration. Today, the Cancer Survivors’ Garden is a popular location for weddings and other special events. For more information on renting this special space:

4worldlovers:
Sunken Gardens Park is 0.31 acres and it is one of our park properties used only for passive recreation, is located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood (two blocks north of Montrose Avenue, and five blocks west of Western Avenue).


While there is no structured programming taking place at this location, we invite you to check out our great programs offered at nearby Horner Park.

By an overwhelming majority, residents of the Ravenswood Manor and Ravenswood Gardens neighborhoods voted to create their own independent park district in 1914. Although these were comfortable, middle-class neighborhoods, the Ravenswood Manor Gardens Park District had limited resources because it could collect no more than 3% of the assessed property valuation within its 1/4-mile territory. The new park district could only afford to create very small parks which emphasized landscape improvements, rather than recreational facilities. In 1917, the Ravenswood Manor Gardens Park District acquired a parcel of land, just east of the North Branch of the Chicago River on Sunnyside Avenue. The following year, the site was transformed into a lovely garden with a central sunken lawn edged by a walk, three trellis-like pergolas, an ornamental fountain, urns, and lush shrubbery and floral plantings. This soon became known as Sunken Gardens Park. In 1934, Sunken Gardens Park became part of the Chicago Park District’s portfolio, which formed through the consolidation of the City's 22 independent park agencies. Although the Park District planted more than 300 new shrubs in the late 1930s, Sunken Gardens Park soon suffered from deterioration and vandalism. Unfortunately, by the early 1950s, all of the original garden features had been removed. Today, Sunken Gardens Park is used for passive recreation.

4worldlovers:
Millennium Park offers a variety of free events and exhibits that are sure to please the entire family.


Four Chicago nonprofit organizations will present free public programming as part of Millennium Park’s robust summer season.


Learn more about the Park's stunning architecture, sculpture and landscape design.


Discover Millennium Park's transformation from an industrial corridor to a world-renowned urban park.


Help DCASE at MiIllennium Park, Chicago Cultural Center, Clarke-Ford House and more.


Learn about Millennium Park’s unique spaces available for corporate, social and other special events.


Our events provide turn-key marketing platforms that can meet any marketing goal.


Request media credentials, download photos and videos – and view current news releases.


Welcome Center, open 9am-5pm (open until the end of the performance on event nights)


Nearby parking garages are located at Grant Park North Garage (25 N Michigan Ave), Grant Park South Garage (325 S. Michigan Ave.) and Millennium Park Garage & Millennium Lakeside Garage (5 S. Columbus Dr.).


Pay in person at each garage location or pre-pay online. Visit millenniumgarages.com or call 312.616.0600 for 24/7 customer service.


From the elevated lines: exit at Washington/Wabash and walk east.


From the subway: exit at Lake (Red Line) or Washington (Blue Line) and walk east.