Then and Now
Riverside train station, then
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Riverside watertower, then
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- 2023 Reflections on Nature Student Poetry Contest
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- “Spooktacular” Riverside!
- Hop Stop 2024
- Guided Tour of the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus
- Hop Stop 2023
- FLOS Fourth of July Raffle
- Olmsted 200
- Housewalk Archives
- Landscape Workdays 2025
- FLOS Planting Day: April 27, 2024
- Spring Workdays – 2023
- RBHS-FLOS Workday: April 15, 2023
- Landscape Workday: November 5, 2022
- Landscape Workday: September 17, 2022
- Landscape Workday: October 16, 2021
- Landscape Workdays: July 10th & September 18th, 2021
- Landscape Workday: May 15, 2021
- Landscape Workday: May 1, 2021
- Landscape Workday: July 18, 2020
- Landscape Workday: March 8, 2020
- 50/50 Tree Planting Program
- Invasion of the Land Snatchers
- Workdays 2009
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- Workdays 2014
- Workdays 2015
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- Workdays 2017
- Workdays 2018
- Workdays 2019
- Lectures
- Presentation & Tour: Eat the Neighborhood with David Odd
- Get Out and Play!: The Health Benefits of Outdoor and Nature Based Activities for Children
- Presentation: Perspectives on Pollinator Well-Being from Illinois Bee Rescue
- Presentation: Olmsted’s Riverside: Stewardship Meets Innovation in a Landmark Village
- Presentation: Cultivating Space: Two New Books about Architecture and Landscape
- Presentation: Early History of Proviso Township and the Surrounding Area
- Presentation: Spongy Moths & Cicadas: Facts & Fallacies
- Presentation: A History of Chicagoland in Maps
- Presentation: Hidden Gems Road Trip
- Living in a Modern or Contemporary House in Riverside
- Native Plants and Living Soil and the Joys of Complexity in the Garden
- The Sweep and Curve: Olmsted’s Riverside by Charles Pipal
- Riverside – The History and the Mysteries
- At Home in Chicago: A Living History of Domestic Architecture
- The Gem of Chicago Wilderness: Ecology and Restoration of the Greatest Ecological Area in the U. S.
- Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses, 1929-1975
- The Seeds of Riverside: Creating an Olmsted 200 Botanical Box
- A Bird Walk with Henry Griffin
- A Look into Urban Bird Migration & What Role We Play
- ATLANTA’S HISTORIC DRUID HILLS AND CHICAGO’S VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE
- Jazz Age Modern: Riverside’s Art Deco & Art Moderne Houses
- Home Rain Garden Discussion Panel
- A. Caldwell and the A-Bomb
- Architecture, Efficiency, and Place
- August 10th – Wild Flower Walk and Talk
- Confessions of a Nature Lover
- Crude by Rail – the Story Behind the Fiery Derailments
- Durable Living Arrangements in Response to the Twin Sides of the Fossil-Fuel Coin
- Environmental Conservation After Dark
- FLOS Lecture: Rethinking Your Lawn
- GOATS DO ROAM – INSIGHTS INTO GOATS AND LANDSCAPING
- Lecture – Backyard Beekeeping
- Lecture – Canada: Landscapes of Modernity
- Lecture – Gardens of China
- Lecture – Gardens of England
- Lecture – Giants in the Park
- Lecture – How Berwyn is Going Green
- Lecture – Riverside, Graceland Cemetery and William LeBaron Jenney
- Lecture – The Impacts of Exotic Species on Native Trees
- Lecture: A Deep Energy Retrofit Case Study
- Lecture: Bird Friendly Gardens and Landscapes
- Lecture: Jackson Park Restoration
- Lecture: Olmsted’s Offspring: From Riverside to Seaside
- Lecture: Salt Creek Greenway Development and Future Connection with Centennial Trail
- Lecture: Secrets from Very Old Trees
- Lecture: The Arcade Building: The Past, Present and the Future
- Lecture: The Mafia in the Western Suburbs
- Lecture: Undamming the Des Plaines
- Lecture: Where Did Martha Go?
- Lecture: How Zero Waste Can Become a Reality
- Lecture: Restoring Wright Buildings to their Rightful Brilliance
- Lecture: What’s Happening in Riverside Lawn?
- Lecture: What’s New (& Old) in the Cook County Forest Preserves
- Lecture: Zoo News
- Olmsted Straight – No Chaser
- Pre-Screening: Ten Towns with Geoffrey Baer
- Riverside in the Urban Millennium – The Need for the Next Civic Spirit
- Riverside: Comprehensive Sewer Study
- Shunde, A Chinese Eco City District Design Competition
- Solar Panels in Riverside: A Case Study
- The Charm of Chickens: Reasons to Raise Backyard Hens
- The Making of Downton Abbey: Setting the Scene
- The State of our Urban Forest
- The Zero Energy Home & Residential Green Roofs
- Trees and Changing Climate
- World’s Fair Gardens
- Wright’s Search for Innovation in Design
- “My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago” — Performance & Book Signing
- Riverside Cruise Nights
- Arcade Mural Project
- FLOS Calendar
- FLOS Theater Outing: Burnham’s Dream
- FRED
- Historic Walking Tours
- Vintage Baseball Game Hits Riverside