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🧹 Free Volunteer Days in Chicago
Park and forest preserve workdays, river and lakefront cleanups, prairie restoration and food bank shifts you can join without paying or knowing anything. Most groups lend gloves and tools and ask you to register first, which is on the card.
North Branch Restoration Project
SAT, OCT 24Bunker North Flatwoods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration Project
SUN, OCT 25Harms Woods East Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration Project
SAT, OCT 31Somme Woods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration Project
SAT, OCT 31Forest Glen Woods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration Project
SUN, NOV 1Somme Prairie Grove Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration Project
SUN, NOV 1St Paul Woods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →Trailside Museum of Natural History
SUN, NOV 15Restoration WorkdayTrailside Museum of Natural History · Oak Park & West SuburbsFree; registration requiredDetails →
SAT, OCT 24Bunker North Flatwoods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration ProjectSUN, OCT 25Harms Woods East Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration ProjectSAT, OCT 31Somme Woods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration ProjectSAT, OCT 31Forest Glen Woods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration ProjectSUN, NOV 1Somme Prairie Grove Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →North Branch Restoration ProjectSUN, NOV 1St Paul Woods Restoration WorkdayNorth Branch Restoration Project · Evanston & North ShoreFree (RSVP required)Details →Trailside Museum of Natural HistorySUN, NOV 15Restoration WorkdayTrailside Museum of Natural History · Oak Park & West SuburbsFree; registration requiredDetails →What lands on this page
These are free events that people do not think of as events, which is exactly why they are hard to find. Most are standing weekly or monthly workdays run by park advisory councils, the forest preserves and river groups rather than one-off dates. The catch is capacity, not cost: many cap numbers and ask you to register, and the card says so.