GREATER ROCKWELL ORGANIZATION

We’re a Chicago neighborhood organization here to help our neighbors engage with their community! We are actively working to build a safe, friendly, and beautiful neighborhood in which everyone can grow and thrive.

CORE COMMITTEES

VOLUNTEERS
WANTED

Corner Gardens

VOLUNTEERS
WANTED

Community Events
Urban Development
Stewardship

Join Us!

Do you have 2-3 extra hours per month? We are seeking talent to help us with our social media, newsletters, and website.

Email president@thegreaterrockwell.org to find out how you can help.

No time to volunteer? You can still help by becoming a member. Membership dues are the donations we need to keep doing what we do.

Become a Member

UPCOMING EVENTS + MEETINGS

Attend a GRO Meeting!

Our meetings are informal and feature hyper-local information.

After 40+ years, we are changing our meeting dates! We now meet the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 P.M. We have also moved our meetings to Waters Elementary Annex located at 4540 N Campbell Ave. Click on the calendar item below to add our meeting to your personal calendar.

We hope to see you soon!

Follow us!

Neighbors! Help us stock the Friendship Center's shelves with diapers and menstrual products! Open boxes are ok to donate too! Donate at 3 locations across the Rockwell Brown Line corridor! Thanks! :)
I lost count, but there are at least 5 new bumpouts in GRO territory! These bumpouts are installed along Sunnyside at Maplewood, Campbell, and Artesian. Thank you, @aldermanmattmartin for prioritizing pedestrian safety! Our students at Waters and Que
We are raising funds again to SAVE YOUR ASH! The invasive emerald ash borer eats the bark of your beautiful parkway ash trees, and eventually kills the tree. If you want to prevent your trees from looking like this, please consider donating to our
Coming soon to an ash tree near you: scary (but truthful!) signs warning of impending doom! The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle that is decimating the ash tree population across the Midwest. Over 30 percent of GRO's tree canopy is ash - we c
Phew! It took a lot of planning, and then a long afternoon of planting, but we've got *FOUR* new corner gardens along Sunnyside at Rockwell and Campbell. Our gardener helper Alex selected native plants that should thrive at each of these locations.
These plants are ready to go! The boxes may *look* like ordinary kitty litter containers, but these are so much more. We have 13 corner gardeners adding 120+ native plants to the neighborhood! The purchase of these plants is funded by your membersh