Based on the inspiring, true story – a young couple & a community of friends commit to turning a worn-out piece of land into a farm. Their decision to preserve the wildlife inhabiting the land, makes this a story of unexpected turns, culminating in a deeper respect for nature.
Sunday, December 8, 1 pm to 5 pm
@ The 1860’s Prairie House, 11225 Constitution Dr., Westchester
Free Event
Enjoy hot chocolate, spiced cider, Christmas music and a Christmas décor that beckons back to the distant past. Handmade Christmas Presents for Sale.
Learn about Thomas Nast, creator of America’s iconic Santa Claus, at 2pm and 4pm.
Sunday, November 17, 1pm
@ The Historic Prairie House, 11225 Constitution Dr., Westchester
$5 Entry Fee, Members Free
Speaker: Kent Taylor. Bring your questions, concerns and ideas.
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Sunday, October 27, 1pm
@ The Historic Prairie House, 11225 Constitution Dr., Westchester
$5 Entry Fee, Members Free
Historian Patricia Reaves will cover the history of cameras and interpret the origins, style, and history of your photos.
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1pm, Saturday September 21 @ The Historic Prairie House
Adults $5, children free. Be wise: wear sturdy shoes and long pants.
Join in the fun, help find a variety of insects at Wolf Road Prairie. Later, on the porch of the Prairie House, we will release the insects back onto the prairie.
Friday, September 27, 7pm
@ The Prairie House, 11225 Constitution Dr., Westchester
$5 Entry Fee, Members Free
World traveler and professional photographer, James Rowan, has visited many of these wilderness preserves, and will be sharing his adventures and slides with us.
Sunday, July 28, 2 pm
Presenter: Jake Russell Silby, Art Institute of Chicago
An illustrative exhibit and lecture of planned development in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
How did Westchester’s Wolf Road Prairie escape development? What future did early developers envision for the Prairie? How did it fit into their over-all plans for Westchester’s development?
Presenter, Jake Russell Silby, a student of the Art Institute of Chicago, will use his exhibit to demonstrate the scope and ambition of early developers.
Free Event @ The Prairie House, 11225 Constitution Dr., Westchester
10am, Saturday July 13 @ The Historic Prairie House
Adults $5, children free. Sturdy shoes, long pants advised. Bring a plastic container.
Join in the fun! Help find a variety of prairie insects. Nets provided. We identify and release all insects back onto the prairie. For those who do not wish to go out onto the prairie, there will be an extensive, beautiful insect display in the newly restored Prairie House.
Featuring perennials from Donna Retzlaff’s 2019 Garden (Plant List)
June 8 – 10 am to 2 pm
At the Prairie House Lawn on the Northern Edge of Wolf Road Prairie
11225 Constitution Drive, Westchester, IL
Best way to help our pollinators!
Monday, May 13, 2019, 7:30pm
Presenter: James Rowan, Naturalist and Historian
When Marquette and Joliet passed through what was to become Illinois, they were greeted with a wilderness of prairie, forests and wetlands untouched since the retreat of the last ice-sheet thousands of years earlier. By visiting Illinois’ many state parks, forest preserves and Nature preserves we will get a glimpse of what these explorers experienced. Mr. Rowan’s program visits those natural areas where the wildlife they experienced can still be found.
Mr. Rowan studied zoology and geology at Northeastern Illinois University He was an animal keeper at
Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago for seventeen years, his photograph exhibit, “Planet of the Arthropods”,
has been exhibited in a number of museums and nature centers around the country.
$5 for non-members @ The Historic Prairie House, 11225 Constitution Drive, Westchester