City Nature Challenge 2023: Chicagoland Region Events
See full event details on the CNC Chicago Wilderness webpage. 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, please fill out this form by April 15th.
This list is actively being updated with new events.
All times are local time unless otherwise indicated.
Saturday, February 25th
All Day: Wild Things Conference 2023
10:15AM: How to Identify Anything: Using iNaturalist to Give and Get Help With Species ID
4:15PM: Building a Community of Science: Stories from App-based Participatory Science in Chicago
Wednesday, April 16th
6PM: DGC Sprouts: DuPage Sunflower Project and Community Science Inspiration (Illinois-DuPage)
Friday, April 28th
5PM: Bioblitz at LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve (Illinois-Kane)
6PM: Lincoln Park Zoo BioBlitz and City Nature Challenge 2023: Chicagoland Region (virtual-Central time)
Saturday, April 29th
9AM: City Nature Challenge at Meadowbrook Nature Preserve (Indiana-Porter)
10AM: Mushroom Stroll at Indiana Dunes State Park (Indiana-Porter)
10AM: Bioblitz at LaBagh Woods (Illinois-Cook)
10AM: Wildlife Nature Hunt at Greenbelt Forest Preserve (Illinois-Lake)
1PM: iNaturalist Scavenger Hunt at Kankakee Sands (Indiana-Newton)
2PM: Wildlife Smartphone Scavenger Hunt: Gibson Woods (Indiana-Lake)
2PM: 100 Birds Bash (Illinois-Cook)
Sunday, April 30th
8AM: West Ridge Birds and Botany Walk (Illinois-Cook)
9AM: Habitat Management & City Nature Challenge at Rock Run Preserve (Illinois-Will)
1PM: Wildlife Smartphone Scavenger Hunt: Gibson Woods (Indiana-Lake)
8:30PM: Mothing in Chesterton, Indiana (Indiana-Porter)
Monday, May 1st
1PM: Let's Look Around Stoutsburg Savanna Nature Preserve (Indiana-Jasper)
Tuesday, May 2nd
6PM: ID the Birds & Bees with Illinois Science Council (Illinois-Cook)
Learn more and RSVP at https://www.chicagowilderness.org/citynaturechallenge
