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PROPOSED CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Department: Conservation and Experiential Programming
Summary: Forest Preserves of Cook County Calendar - 7/20/2017 - 9/12/2017
Today! Thursday, 7/20; 11 am - 2 pm
Insect Fest, Cummings Square, River Forest
Come celebrate and learn about insects. Explore how pollinators help us. Build a bug playground. Follow the migratory patterns of monarch butterflies and learn how to create habitat for them locally. For more information, call 708-386-4042. All ages.
Daily through Monday, 9/4; 10 am - 5 pm (weather permitting)
Butterflies & Blooms; Regenstein Learning Campus; Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe
This wonderful exhibition, where visitors can immerse themselves in a habitat filled with hundreds of live butterflies, has become a Garden favorite. Fee applies.
Daily through 9/17; 10 am - 5 pm
Dinos and Dragons, Chicago Zoological Society/Brookfield Zoo, Brookfield
Brookfield Zoo's summer Dinos & Dragons exhibit features 17 animatronic creatures, including the Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Chinese dragon. Zoogoers can also get up-close views of live reptiles, including a Komodo Dragon. The exhibit features hands-on activities, as well as a dinosaur dissection lab and excavation site.
Daily through 8/27; 10 am - 4 pm
Saturdays and Sundays, through 10/1; 11 am - 4 pm
Family Drop-in activities, Chicago Botanic Garden, Regenstein Learning Campus
Join us at the Regenstein Learning Campus for fun, hands-on activities for families and children.
Daily through Sunday, 10/15
"Brazil in the Garden"; Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe
Come experience the vibrant sights and sounds of Brazil as the Garden celebrates the biodiversity and culture of the country with plants and special offerings inspired by Brazil. There will be Brazilian music on selected evenings, special exhibits in the Joutras gallery and Lenhardt library, classes, family drop-in programs, food in the Caf?, and Roberto Burle Marx-inspired plantings throughout...
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