Healthy Yards, Healthy People

A little girl with black hair, a strawberry dress, and red pants stands in front of a native front yard on a Chicago street.

Illinois looks nothing like it did 150 years ago and beyond. Only .01% of the Prairie State’s prairies remain. People, however, can reclaim some of that prairie land — and the insects and wildlife that rely on it — in their yard. “They can be these little repositories to our shrinking natural areas,” says Mary […]