Promontory Point Conservancy

Save the Point again! Join the fight to protect & preserve this South Side gem!
🪨🌊🌳 Profile pic credit: Eric Allix Rogers.

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Join us this afternoon for a 45 minute guided meditation!

Somatic therapist Roger Hughes will lead us through simple and meaningful movements and meditations starting at 1 PM.

Meet at the Wallach Fountaion at 12:45 - see you soon!

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Promontory Point this morning 🍂🍁

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Finally, we have just 2 more Point clean up days this year! Join us on Sunday, October 20 at 10:30am for our next Point clean up. The last clean-up of the season is November 10, 10:30 - noon, at the Point. we hope to see you soon!

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Join us this month for some exciting events!
Up first, this Saturday, 10/12 at 11am join us for a Blessing of the Animals with Pastor David Black. All animals are welcome. Please meet at the Wallach (sleeping fawn) Fountain on the east side of the tunnel.

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Then on Mondays in October starting on on 10/14, join Somatic Therapist Roger Hughes for a 45-minute guided ‘Moving Meditation’ at Promontory Point. Free and open to the public!

Join Roger and Jack Spicer at the Wallach (sleeping fawn) Fountain at 7:25am

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Join us TOMORROW for Point cleanup! Join us at 10:30am (if it’s raining at 10, cleanup will be cancelled)

We need at least four teams of three people for this sprucing of the Point so please come out and join us! We need your excellent help.

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Some of us layout on historic limestone revetments! @SaveThePointChi

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

TOMORROW - join us for Point clean up

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

We are honored to receive this grant from the Driehaus Foundation! This grant will allow us to continue working on our alternatives design study - the ONLY plan to date that combines storm damage & shoreline protection with preservation of historic limestone & ADA accessibility.

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Join us on Sunday, July 21 for our next Point Clean-Up Day! From 10:30 - Noon, we'll be pruning back vegetation and trees in and along the revetment, cleaning up the firepits in the Council Rings, and picking up trash and debris in and on the revetment, and on the parkland

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Join us on Sunday, July 21 for our next Point Clean-Up Day! From 10:30 - Noon, we'll be pruning back vegetation and trees in and along the revetment, cleaning up the firepits in the Council Rings, and picking up trash and debris in and on the revetment, and on the parkland

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

join us today for a community mural project in the tunnel! 🎨

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

We are so pleased to announce that Promontory Point Conservancy has been awarded two grants!
Thanks to grants from both The National Trust for Historic Preservation's Johanna Favrot Fund & Landmarks Illinois, we are in the process of hiring an historic treatments consultant 🥳

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

today! see you soon.

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Join us next weekend for Point clean up! Sunday, June 23 10:30-noon ☀️

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

This drone survey was part of McLaren Engineering’s condition study of the limestone revetment - proving that the Point’s revetment can be fixed rather than replaced with concrete.
Read more & watch the full video: https://t.co/7ftokOUOYY

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

Taylor Zimmerman’s drone survey of Promontory Point shoreline won the Civil + Structural Engineer Media’s 2024 Engineering Drone Video of the Year!

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Join us next weekend for Point clean up! Sunday, June 23 10:30-noon ☀️

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

thanks to everyone who joined us for Point Day a few weeks ago! We had a great time celebrating the 86th anniversary of the park’s opening. Join us for upcoming Point cleanup on Sunday, June 23 at 10am! ☀️

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

TODAY is Point Day! Join us at The Point all day ☀️

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

🚨 RAIN DELAY 🚨 given tomorrow’s forecast we’re moving Point Day to MONDAY 5/27.

[Promontory Point Conservancy @SaveThePointChi]

SUNDAY, MAY 26 - join us & celebrate the 86th anni of the opening of Promontory Point + the 120th birthday of renowned landscape architect Alfred Caldwell w/ cupcakes from Elisa Cake By the Pound — as long as supply lasts & lots of fun activities. We’ll see you at The Point! ☀️