2026 Chicago Beaver Festival:
Beavers & Youth: Stream Keepers of Tomorrow
Presented by:
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Chicago Conservation Corps at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Chicago Park District
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Hyde Park Neighborhood Club
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Illinois Beaver Alliance
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Illinois Master Naturalists
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Nichols Park Advisory Council
Email the Organizer
View the Eventbrite
Beaver Artwork Wanted! (Kids of All Ages)
Volunteer at the Festival
Sponsored by:
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Ecosystem Engineer Level:
Beaver Institute
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Keystone Level:
Forest Preserves of Cook County
Illinois Environmental Council
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Wetland Level
Prairie State Conservation Coalition
​Urban Rivers
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Lodge Level
ILM Environments
The Insect Asylum
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Believer Level
Skunk Cabbage Books
WasteNot Compost
Windy City Bird Lab
Attention Artists of All Ages!
Please help us “decorate” the Chicago Beaver Festival with your creative art projects! FIND OUT MORE!
Exhibitors:​​
​​American Indian Center
Argyll Beaver & Wildlife Visitor Center, Scotland
Beaver Institute
Cathey Gardens
Chicago Architecture Center
Chicago Conservation Corps
Chicago Park District
Chicago Parks Foundation
Chicago Environmentalists
conservation@home
Environment Illinois
Forest Preserves of Cook County
Garfield Park Conservatory
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
The Insect Asylum
Lake Forest Openlands Association
Irving Park YMCA Leaders ClubMbwakawen Harambee Collective
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Morton Arboretum
Nature Sounds Society
Peggy Lee Franklin
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Prairie State Conservation Coalition
Roots & Shoots-Jane Goodall Institute
Skunk Cabbage Books
Under the Canopy--Illinois Master Naturalists​​
Urban Rivers
Urban Wildlife Institute at the Lincoln Park Zoo
Windy City Bird Lab
