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Government environmental agencies:
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Find out what's new at the Department, learn its history, follow legislation, download applications for licenses or permits, or just learn more about the world around you.
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
Find out what's new at the agency responsible for regulating polluting industries, and otherwise ensuring clean air and water for all Illinois residents.
IEPA: Pollution Complaint Form
Witness garbage being dumped or burned? Report this and any other pollution complaint directly to IEPA by using this page.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Find information on key issues such as Air, Cleanup, Compliance & Enforcement, Ecosystems, Environmental Management, Human Health, Industry, Pesticides, Pollutants / Toxics, Pollution Prevention, Research, Treatment & Control.
United States Fish & Wildlife Service
The federal agency responsible for the protection, conservation, restoration and management of fish and wildlife resources and their habitats for the continued enjoyment of people. The Service's major responsibilities are for migratory birds, endangered species, certain marine mammals, and freshwater and anadromous fish.
Environmental policy, legislation, and voting information:
Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC)
A Midwest public interest environmental advocacy organization working to achieve cleaner energy resources and implement sustainable energy strategies, promote innovative and efficient transportation and land use approaches that produce cleaner air and more jobs, and develop sound environmental management practices that conserve natural resources and improve the quality of life in our communities.
Find information on Legislation-Status and Text , Public Acts, Illinois Compiled Statutes, Legislative Reports, Illinois Constitution. Find your State Legislator and State Legislative and Congressional Redistricting Maps.
Illinois Environmental Council (IEC) and Illinois Environmental Council Education Fund (IECEF)
Promotes sound environmental laws and policies, provide a forum for environmentalists and facilitate a statewide activist network. IEC performs legislative advocacy and serves as the environmental community's eyes, ears and voice in Springfield. IECEF provides programs of education, policy study, publication and outreach.
Illinois State Board of Elections
Find election-related information such as searchable vote totals, and lists of candidates filed, as well as downloadable documents. Also includes campaign disclosure and voting information and information about members of the board, including meeting dates and locations
Find out where your candidates are on the issues, find out how your congressional representative and senators are doing their jobs. Is your state losing or gaining congressional seats? Search the Current Archive of Presidential Public Statements, and read the results of the Youth Inclusion Survey, which highlights post-election attitudes toward politics.
Local non-profit environmental organizations:
Works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.
American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago
Their mission is the prevention and treatment of all lung diseases with an emphasis on tobacco-related diseases and asthma. With the assistance of decades of experience and scientific research from major medical and educational institutions, the lung association has developed community-based health education programs on asthma and tobacco-use. The lung association makes these programs available to schools, community organizations, and health agencies for free or for a nominal fee.
Strives to strengthen the economic competitiveness of the Chicago region through smarter use of infrastructure investment and incentives; Revitalize and support existing communities; Promote new development that is more walkable, transit-friendly and preserves natural resources in newly developing areas.
Center for Neighborhood Technology
A unique mission: To invent and implement new tools and methods that create livable urban communities for everyone.
An unprecedented alliance of more than 140 public and private organizations working together to protect, restore, study and manage the precious natural ecosystems of the Chicago region for the benefit of the public.
Chicagoland Environmental Network (CEN)
An environmental resource helping people find out about environmental issues, volunteer opportunities, organizations, and resources in northeastern Illinois.CEN includes over 250 participating environmental organizations and agencies involved in habitat restoration, wetlands, prairies, watershed projects, urban gardening, revitalization programs, energy conservation, composting, wildlife conservation, recycling, and more.
Cook County Forest Preserve District Volunteer Resources
The staff and volunteers of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County have a challenging and wonderful mission – restoring health and facilitating compatible use of 68,000 precious natural acres
Partners with businesses and governmental agencies to promote environmental awareness and give employees a choice in workplace giving campaigns. The Sierra Club Foundation is a member organization and recipient of workplace giving contributions to Earth Share of Illinois.
Friends of the Forest Preserves
Friends of the Forest Preserves works to preserve, protect, and restore the Cook County Forest Preserves for the benefit of people and nature.
Chicago's strongest public advocate for the protection, preservation and improvement of the city's lakefront, regional and neighborhood parks. Friends of the Parks' mission is to preserve, protect and improve these parks and to foster appreciation for the parks' many contributions to the quality of urban life. FOTP works to promote increased public/private commitment to our historic system of parks and open spaces.
Works to restore fish and wildlife habitat, conserve land and water, and eliminate toxics in the watershed of America's largest lake. We achieve these through education, research, law, science, economics, and strategic partnerships.
Lake Forest Open Lands Association
Is a private land trust in northeastern Illinois. We own and protect over 750 acres of prairie, savanna, wetland and woodland in Lake Forest. Our preserves are open to the public on a year-round basis, except when periodic maintenance is required.
Mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds and other wildlife for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.
Protects public open space for recreation and conservation. Regional leader for open space advocacy and acquisition, urban greening, greenways and trail planning, and watershed restoration.
Illinois only statewide conservation organization dedicated to river and stream conservation. Works to provide information, science and hands-on assistance to individuals and community groups to become effective river conservation leaders.
A non-profit organization dedicated to the reduction of pesticide use and the implementation of safer alternatives in urban and rural Illinois.
The only national nonprofit working exclusively to protect land for human enjoyment and well-being. TPL helps conserve land for recreation and spiritual nourishment and to improve the health and quality of life of American communities. TPL's legal and real estate specialists work with landowners, government agencies, and community groups.
A non-profit organization with a mission to educate and share information with members and community at the "plant-roots" level and to promote biodiversity and environmentally sound practices. Wild Ones is a diverse membership interested in landscaping using native species in developing plant communities.
Ammunition, paint, lightbulbs, oil, household cleaners, needles, and much more!
Provided by the IL Waste Management and Research Center
The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.
Works to promote recycling, source reduction and composting. Individuals, community groups and environmental groups can join together and change the way Chicago treats the earth.
Where to Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste
If you live in northeastern Illinois there are several ways to dispose of your household hazardous waste.
Environmental News Network (ENN)
Offers timely environmental news, live chats, interactive quizzes, daily feature stories, forums for debate, audio, video and more. These components are all aimed at educating the public about the major issues, while at the same time giving them the tools to make a difference in their own community. ENN is not an activist publication, but instead try to present information from all sides so our users can make their own decisions.
Environmental News Service (ENS)
is the original daily international wire service of the environment. Established in 1990 by Editor-in-Chief Sunny Lewis and Managing Editor Jim Crabtree, it is independently owned and operated.The Environment News Service (ENS) exists to present late-breaking environmental news in a fair and balanced manner.