Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2025: Chicagoland Region!
Our next planning planning meeting will be:
Tuesday, May 14th at 10AM Central (virtually)
To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will send you the agenda and meeting link.
Between April 26th and 29th, we made 11,100 observations of 1,670 species in the Chicagoland Region!
Explore everything we found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=166458&verifiable=any&view=species
Globally, we made 2,436,000 observations of 65,600+ species (including 3,940+ rare/endangered/threatened species) made possible by 83,500 participants in 690 cities!
Time to help identify! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2024-chicagoland-region
TONIGHT (April 30th): Join other iNatters at District Brew Yards from 6PM to 8PM.
Folks will get a quick tutorial on how to use the iNaturalist app and website, and then hang out enjoying the local brew while identifying observations that occurred over the past weekend.
District Brew Yards
417 N Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL (view map)
Bring your own laptop or device to work on!
Organized by Illinois Science Council. You can let 'em know you're coming at https://ISCandCNC.eventbrite.com.
The City Nature Challenge has begun! Happy observing and hope to see you at one of our many events, including the iNat get-together at District Brew Yards next Tuesday the 30th :)
Events: https://www.chicagowilderness.org/page/citynaturechallenge
Tuesday get-together: https://ISCandCNC.eventbrite.com
View all our observations so far: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-chicagoland-region
Help identify: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&project_id=city-nature-challenge-2024-chicagoland-region
Join other iNatters and Illinois Science Council at District Brew Yards on Tuesday, April 30th (6PM to 8PM).
Folks will get a quick tutorial on how to use the great iNaturalist app and website, and then hang out enjoying the local brew while identifying observations that occurred over the past weekend.
Bring your own laptop or device to work on!
RSVP at https://ISCandCNC.eventbrite.com
One month til the City Nature Challenge 2024 (April 26th through April 29th)! Check out the events folks around the region are organizing or submit your own event here by April 1st.
See full event details on the CNC Chicago Wilderness webpage.
All times are local time unless otherwise indicated.
5PM: Welcoming All Community to the City Nature Challenge: A Virtual Conversation about Accessibility (virtual)
6PM: Wild Mile Plant ID Walk (Illinois-Cook)
7PM: Lincoln Park Zoo BioBlitz @ Night: Bats, Birds, & Bugs (Illinois-Cook)
7AM: Burnham Prairie Bird Walk (Illinois-Cook)
7AM: Northerly Island Bird Walk (Illinois-Cook)
10AM: City Nature Challenge at Ping Tom Memorial Park (Illinois-Cook)
10AM: Out In Nature - Bioblitz at Humboldt Park (Illinois-Cook)
1PM: iNaturalist Tree Identification Hike at Kankakee Sands (Indiana-Newton)
1:30PM: City Nature Challenge Hike at Lighthouse Beach (Illinois-Cook)
8PM: Notable Nocturnals at Kankakee Sands (Indiana-Newton)
9AM: Joliet Junior College Volunteer Morning and Bioblitz (Illinois-Will)
10AM: Steelworkers Park Critter Nature Challenge // Desafío de Naturaleza y Vida Silvestre en Steelworkers Park (Illinois-Cook)
10AM: Disc Golf Nature Challenge at Jackson Park (Illinois-Cook)
10:30AM: iNaturalist Bioblitz at Osterman Beach Dunes Natural Area (Illinois-Cook)
12PM: Spring Ephemeral BioBlitz at J. Timothy Ritchie Nature Preserve (Indiana-Porter)
6PM: After Work Bird Walk at Montrose Point (Illinois-Cook)
6PM: ID the Birds & Bees with Illinois Science Council (Illinois-Cook)
Learn more about each event at https://www.chicagowilderness.org/citynaturechallenge
If you or your organization is thinking about holding a related event before, during, or soon after the City Nature Challenge in the Chicagoland Region, we will be collecting all event information and displaying them on and this iNat project.
Example events include:
Let us know what you think and share your event details here by April 1st: https://forms.gle/zZSSFmYAdwyTkuFd9
Click this link to join the 2024 project for the City Nature Challenge: Chicagoland Region:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2024-chicagoland-region/join
CNC 2024 is...
Interested in helping organize locally or planning events? Join our organizing team!
We meet via Zoom on the second Tuesday of the month at 10AM Central through May 2024.
To be added to that contact list, add your info here: https://forms.gle/LKzL7rTp8VgcpeCV9.
Already know what event you wanna hold around the challenge?
Tell us about it here and we'll help promote it: https://forms.gle/zZSSFmYAdwyTkuFd9 .
Know someone who might be interested in attending a training on how to use iNaturalist?
There is a training in English on November 28th (10AM Central) and one in Spanish on December 7th (3PM Central).
Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YxicojenHTBcGAPn9-BICjy12_Vc_gVPpYNgfBLWG1M/edit
Help organize locally for the City Nature Challenge 2024: Chicagoland Region. The observation dates for next year's challenge are April 26th through April 29th, 2024. Save the dates!
Our first regional organizers planning meeting will be:
Tuesday, November 14th at 10AM Central
via Zoom
To join that meeting and/or be added to our regional organizers email list, add your contact info to this form and we will reach out with additional information closer to the date.
