Meetings & Events
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
GRO Monthly Meeting
Get out of the house and join your neighbors in a casual, low pressure social setting. You’re probably not going to want to come, but you’ll be glad you did.
Doors open at 6pm
Chicago River Day
At this watershed-wide cleanup, thousands of community members, families, and companies work in and along the 156-mile Chicago-Calumet River system at over 80 locations throughout the city and suburbs.
https://www.chicagoriver.org/get-involved/volunteer/chicago-river-day
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
Eco Fest
EcoFest is the annual, free environmental festival where we come together to take action, reduce waste and celebrate our planet.
Find out more here:
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
GRO Monthly Meeting
Get out of the house and join your neighbors in a casual, low pressure social setting. You’re probably not going to want to come, but you’ll be glad you did.
Doors open at 6pm
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
GRO Monthly Meeting
Get out of the house and join your neighbors in a casual, low pressure social setting. You’re probably not going to want to come, but you’ll be glad you did.
Doors open at 6pm
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
GRO Monthly Meeting
Get out of the house and join your neighbors in a casual, low pressure social setting. You’re probably not going to want to come, but you’ll be glad you did.
Doors open at 6pm
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Waters Garden Volunteer Workday
The garden is a community project, and we’re so grateful for everyone’s help to ensure it continues to thrive
Waters Garden Volunteer Orientation
This kicks off our official workdays for the season! Whether you’ve been with us for years or are curious about getting involved, we’d love to see you there!
Corner Gardens Spring Kickoff
Gathering of corner gardeners at Eco Cafe on Friday 4/24 from 7-8pm to share ideas and wisdom for our pollinator-friendly corner parkway gardens
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
Jacob Park Earth Day Cleanup
Come join your neighbors with GRO in the city-wide Earth Day cleanup on Saturday, April 18th in collaboration with the Chicago Park District and Friends of the Parks!
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
Seed Swap and Give Away
Come on by the Gross Park field house (2708 W Lawrence) to pick up packets of native pollinator plant seeds including milkweed, smooth blue aster, butterfly weed, spiderwort, native grasses and more while supplies last!
Neighbor Night
Get out of the house and join your neighbors in a casual, low pressure social setting. You’re probably not going to want to come, but you’ll be glad you did.
Doors open at 6pm
Euchre Night
Part of the Dank Haus Neighbor Nights, enjoy a beverage and a round or two of euchre with your neighbors. A perfect place to meet your neighbors and socialize! All proceeds support the DANK Haus Museum.
Look for the GRO table - we’ll bring the cards, you bring the tricks!
Plan your Spring Garden
Part of our seasonal Speaker Series events, join your neighbors as we discuss planning ahead for your Spring garden. Whether you need to learn some new tips, refresh your skillset or simply brainstorm with a fellow gardener this is a great meeting to attend.
Please RSVP here so we know how many people to expect
Film Viewing - Join or Die
Heart of Lincoln Square and GRO are partnering to host this screening of Join or Die because we hope to inspire more neighbors to get involved with local clubs and organizations - and to provide a venue to facilitate networking amongst the community. RSVPS are strongly encouraged, as space is limited. Optional donations will go to helping to cover our costs - and any donations above the cost to host the event will go directly to The Friendship Center.
The screening will start at 1:10, so please arrive early enough to get seated. We are still welcoming event sponsors - https://donorbox.org/community-screening-2026 - if you wish to speak ahead of the screening on behalf of your organization - please contact Loren Johnson at info@heartoflincolnsquare.org.
November Meeting
Join us for our annual elections meeting! We’ll thank our outgoing board members for their work this past year, and we’ll welcome the new board.
October Meeting (Rescheduled!)
Our monthly meeting is postponed one week for Yom Kippur. We look forward to seeing you on the second Wednesday of October!
GRO Summer Garden Walk 2025
Join us for a community garden walk on Saturday, July 26th! Attendance is free with a suggested donation and proceeds will benefit GRO’s corner gardens initiave and Lawrence Hall’s Serenity Garden!
Start time: 11:00am
Starting location (grab a map and enter our raffles!): Waters Elementary School Garden
End time: 3:00pm
Post-walk celebration: 3:00pm-5:00pm at The Green Post. Say “GRO” with your order and The Green Post will donate 15% of your order to our cause!
GRO-Rage and Yard Sales
Our highly anticipated neighborhood garage and yard sale is back! Come on out for deals and fun!
Attend a GRO Meeting!
Our meetings are informal and feature hyper-local information. Come meet your neighbors and contribute to the community!
We meet the first Wednesday of each month at Waters Elementary School in the annex located at 4540 N Campbell Ave.
The doors unlock at 6:00PM for some social time and the meetings start promptly at 6:30PM.
We hope to see you there!