FREE: 7th Annual Winter Solstice Parade of Lights

Shelton Park Shelton Park, Glencoe, IL, United States

Decorate yourself, family, dogs, strollers or wagons with lights and things that glow. No candles or open flames, please! Meet at Glencoe’s Shelton Park playground for a festive presentation. Stroll […]

Warm Your Hands, Share Your Heart

Glencoe South School 266 Linden Ave, Glencoe, IL, United States

In honor of Martin Luther King Day School District #35 invites families and the community to learn more about local service organizations and opportunities to volunteer or contribute. The event […]

Water in a Time of Rapidly Changing Climate

Virtual

Reliable supplies of water are threatened by scarcity, excess, wild fluctuations between these extremes, and pollution. In the Great Lakes region, some communities enjoy ample supplies and others do not, […]

2022 Green Bay Trail Photo Contest Artist reception

Glencoe Youth Services 680 Greenwood Ave, Glencoe, United States

It's been said that the two most engaging powers of a photograph are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Come see the Green Bay Trail in a new light […]

Not Your Mother’s Garden

Virtual

Landscape designer Deborah Chud returns to take the audience on a photo tour of her highly unusual New Perennialist-inspired garden and describes the design principles underlying it. Many of the […]

Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day. Join us to clean up Glencoe parks and lakefront. We will meet at various locations. This is a rain or shine event, please dress for the weather. […]

Spring Bird Walk – NEW DATE

Glencoe Golf Club 621 Westly Rd., Glencoe, IL, United States

RESCHEDULED due to weather New date is 8:30 - 10AM, Thursday, May 11 Join area expert birder, Tim Joyce, of Wild Birds Unlimited, for a bird walk along the Glencoe […]

Trail Restoration Day – Volunteer Celebration

Green Bay Trail & Mary St. 278 Mary Street, Winnetka, IL, United States

Meet Trail Day stewards at the Mary St, entrance to the Green Bay Trail, south of  Glencoe’s Harbor Ave. The day’s agenda will be discussed at that time. Work will […]

Restoring the Nachusa Grasslands

Virtual

The Nachusa Grasslands is a 3,800-acre restored tallgrass prairie near Franklin Grove, about a two-hour drive west of Glencoe. Managed by The Nature Conservancy and volunteers, it is Illinois’s largest […]

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