Chicago Living Corridors Map

The Chicago Area Living Corridor Alliance (or Chicago Living Corridors) is an umbrella organization consisting of a number of local environmental not-for-profits. The goal of the collective effort was to provide private landowners with inspiration and resources to help them support pollinator populations, conserve clean water, increase biodiversity and restore soil. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s vision of a Backyard National Park, CLC believes private landowners have an important role to play in reversing the negative impact of ecosystem loss and fragmentation, land and water pollution, and climate change.

The mapping of properties with native habitat has been a key accomplishment.

Using the Chicago Living Corridors map.

Click on the map to open it. Two icons in the upper right black bar, allow you to interact with the map.

Legend: (stacked horizontal lines) is a directory of the organizations included on the map and their corresponding marker color.
Layers: (stacked ‘paper’) allows you to toggle the visibility of the associated organization’s sites. And specifically the CALCA dots in juxtaposition to the protected lands.

On the left are key icons offering additional view options. Hover over them for the function name.

As of March, 2019, there were approximately 2700 dots on the map!

This map shows private landowners’ yards registered with the following organizations:

Barrington Area Conservation Trust
Citizens for Conservation (based in Barrington)
C@H Cook County– Forest Preserves of Cook County/Univ. of Illinois Extension
Illinois Audubon Society Bird and Butterfly program (Chicago region)
C@H Lake County– Openlands
The Conservation Foundation (C@H: Will, Kane, DuPage, Kendall counties)
The Land Conservancy of McHenry County
Natural Land Institute (Northern Illinois Counties, Rockford Home Office)
WestCook Wild Ones (West Cook County)
Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee (McHenry County)
Chicago Living Corridors is inviting the inclusion of additional organizations with mapped properties with native habitat.

Note: The names Chicago Living Corridors and Chicago Area Living Corridor Alliance are the same organization. Read more about this umbrella organization here.