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Coverage

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2025

Floral Fashion Meets Fundraising: FLEUROTICA Brings Botanical Couture to the Runway at Garfield Park Conservatory | Better Magazine (Make It Better Foundation)

2024

Garfield Park Conservatory Breaks Ground On Children’s Garden Overhaul | Block Club Chicago

Floral Designs Dazzle at Garfield Park Conservatory’s FLEUROTICA Floral Fashion Show | Block Club Chicago

Garfield Park Conservatory Starts Charging Entry Fee For Non-Chicagoans | Block Club Chicago

Garfield Park Conservatory to break ground on new $10 million children’s garden | Chicago Sun Times

West Side Community Gardeners Take Their Skills Home | Block Club Chicago

Exhibit Tells Garfield Park History Through Photos | Axios Chicago

Garfield Park Conservatory Celebrates Earth Month | Austin Weekly News

30 Best Things to Do in Chicago and the Suburbs This April 2024 | Better Magazine (Make It Better Foundation)

André 3000 Played His Flute on The West Side Like A True Outkast Would | The Tribe

2023

How the Garfield Park Conservatory is Life Giving | The Run Down Podcast

Music for Plants and The People Who Love Them | Reset with Sascha-Ann Simmons

Teen Work Study Program Flourishes in Return to Garfield Park Conservatory | Fox 32

How Chicago Families Can Enjoy the End of Summer Break | City Cast Chicago

An Otherworldly Exhibit Converts Non-believers to Optimists | South Side Weekly

Garfield Park Conservatory’s Afrofuturism Exhibit Explores World Without Environmental Racism | Block Club Chicago

View A World Beyond Environmental Injustice Art Exhibit at Garfield Park Conservatory | Austin Weekly News

Garfield Park Conservatory Raising Funds To Build Indoor Children’s Play Space | Block Club Chicago

Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer (GPC featured at the 1:30:00 mark)| WTTW – Chicago PBS

2022

Garfield Park Conservatory Agave Flower is 15 Feet Tall and Growing | Chicago Sun Times

Community Compost Events Aim to Keep A Ton of Food Waste Out of Landfill | WTTW

2021

Yelp Reviewers Vault Garfield Park Conservatory to Top Garden in The U.S. and Canada | WTTW – Chicago PBS

Forgotten Artist Gets His Moment in the Sun With Garfield Park’s ‘Still Life in Real Life’ Exhibit | WTTW -Chicago PBS

2020

‘Neighbor Pass’ Gives Locals First Access as Garfield Park Conservatory Reopens | WTTW

‘Flowers of Monet’ at Garfield Park Conservatory Bring Artist’s Vision to Life | WTTW

2019

Fleurotica: Inspiration—and Education—Bloom in Chicago With a Floral-Fueled Fashion Show | The Root

Garfield Conservatory’s 30-Foot Agave Is Ready to Bloom | Chicago Magazine