With a $100,000 grant to The Morton Arboretum, the Exelon Foundation has become the first philanthropic organization to support a trio of youth mentoring and science learning programs.

The programs comprise …

The Morton Arboretum Children’s Garden, which has attracted more than 1.5 million visitors and won six prestigious awards, has now received a $75,000 donation from Navistar to help children develop a …

The Morton Arboretum has introduced ArbNet, a new online, interactive community of arboreta that is designed to support the common purposes and interests of tree-focused public gardens.

The ArbNet website includes the Morton …

Illinois observes Arbor Day on the last Friday in April—this year, it's April 29.

We celebrate Arbor Day because trees are essential to our lives, from the very air we breathe to …

Art in the Service of Science
Guild of Natural Sciences Exhibit
February 15 - June 4
9 am - 5 pm / Tuesday-Friday / 10 am - 4 pm Saturdays

Scientific illustrators are artists in the …

A few of the first signs of spring are beginning to peek out at The Morton Arboretum.

Visitors to the Arboretum’s May Watts Reading Garden at the Sterling Morton Library will soon …

Continuing through the final weekend in October, The Morton Arboretum hosts its fantastic Fall Color Festival  from October 2- 31.

From pumpkins, gourds and scarecrows, to taffy apples, brats, chicken and roasted corn, …

"A tree sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed stops the heart; a shrub causes intolerable pain; a vine intoxicates; a leaf triggers a war."

Do you think these ideas sound like …

The Nature Artists' Guild of The Morton Arboretum holds this popular event Saturday and Sunday, April 17 and 18, from noon - 5 pm. Image above is "Choke Cherry," giclee of colored …

Want to get out and enjoy the spring weather?  Stop by the Arboretum and try one of our new, drop-in, Spring Break Nature Programs! 

These one-hour, guided programs for kids and adults …