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First Nations Community Garden

First Nations Community Garden from directly overhead

First Nations Community Garden is a garden in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 183 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Spikings Farm Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 6.6 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The mission of the First Nations Community Garden is to provide a healing space for the Intertribal Native Community of Chicago, to promote public knowledge and appreciation of Chicago’s Indigenous landscape, native plants, gardens and the environment.

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Coordinates41.96435, -87.72761

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Gardens
Artworks
  • Samuel Gompers Monument: 0.8 mi
  • Hope and Renewal: 0.8 mi
  • Hope and Renewal: 0.8 mi
  • Quarks VI: 1.7 mi
  • Thomas Jefferson Statue: 1.8 mi
Museums
Picnic sites
Historic sites
  • Iroquois Theatre Fire Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • The Shrine of Assyrian Patriarchs & Bishops: 1.2 mi
  • Memorial of the Assyrian Martyrs: 1.2 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 1.2 mi
  • Ella Labagh: 1.4 mi
Attractions
Beaches: 60
Peaks: 18
Waterfalls: 4
Cliffs: 2
Lighthouses: 2
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 2.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of First Nations Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillSW 228°259 m24.2 mi
Mount TrashmoreNNE 16°204 m4.2 mi
Players HillSSW 199°187 m6.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:31
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262938485868747467544331

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • White-tailed Deer587 obs
  • American Robin493 obs
  • Great Blue Heron442 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel425 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron415 obs
  • Mallard390 obs
  • Virginia bluebells339 obs
  • Monarch336 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/745156176

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