UNION Impact Center

05/29/2026

🌎🦋🐝🐞🌎 Llegan las vacaciones, y vuela el verano. No te pierdas el próximo evento en el Dvorak Park (1119 W. Cullerton St.) el día sábado, 13 de junio. ¡Una celebración organizada por Women for Green Spaces - Mujeres por Espacios Verdes en honor a los polinizadores! 🌎🦋🐝🐞🌎

05/27/2026

📣📆🗑 Se le hace una cordial invitación a las familias del Programa de Fútbol Juvenil de UNION Impact Center a participar en nuestra clausura de la temporada de indoors. Los esperamos en Plaza Huitzil en la fechas indicadas y las cuales están organizadas por grupo (edad). Esperamos contar con su presencia para continuar celebrando el amor por el deporte y el compromiso de nuestros participantes y sus familias.
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📣📆🗑 UNION's Youth Soccer Program families are invited to join the end-of-the season celebrations. We look forward to seeing you at Plaza Huitzil on the listed dates which are organized by age groups. We hope to count with your participation as we continue to celebrate our love for the sport and to recognize the commitment of our participating youth and families.

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05/22/2026

🌳🍎🍐🍑🌳¡Los esperamos en Plaza Huitzil! Join us at Plaza Huitzil!

05/15/2026

🎤📝✍🏼¿Dónde y cómo creamos nuestras historias?

05/13/2026

📣📆🗑 Se le hace una cordial invitación a todas las familias del Programa de Fútbol Juvenil a participar en una jornada de limpieza el miércoles en el Parque Cornell (20 de Mayo, 3:30pm-6pm). Nos da mucho gusto poder fomentar espacios verdes seguros en el Barrio de las Empacadoras y esperamos contar con su apoyo para continuar cuidando de nuestra comunidad.
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📣📆🗑 UNION's Youth Soccer Program families are invited to join the upcoming Clean & Green at Cornell Square Park (May 20th, 3:30-6:00pm). We are grateful to foster safe green spaces in Back of the Yards and hope to count with your support as we continue to care for our community.

05/12/2026

🐍🐦🦌🌳¿Estás en busca de un evento familiar gratuito para disfrutar un poco de la naturaleza? Este sábado se lleva a cabo el evento anual, Fiesta de Cuadra en la Naturaleza, organizado por los Bosques del Condado de Cook. ¿Sabes cómo llegar a Eggers Park? 🚗Aquí te compartimos las instrucciones: https://bit.ly/3Po7Wh8
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🐍🐦🦌🌳Are you looking for a free family event to enjoy some time in nature? The Forest Preserves of Cook County annual event, the Nature Block Party, is being held this Saturday. Do you know how to get Eggers Grove? 🚗We’re sharing the directions here: https://bit.ly/3Po7Wh8

05/05/2026

🍎🍐🍊Who wants to learn more about persimmons? Check out the post below with helpful links. AND complete our registration form if you'd to request your very own common persimmon (diospyros virginiana). The free sapling distribution is this Friday at Plaza Huitzil. Full details here: ✍🏼📝bit.ly/3PuEnue

Persimmons. Have you ever eaten one? Persimmons are sweet, native to Illinois, and have many unique characteristics to explore.

Tune in to with Chris Enroth and Ken Johnson as they sit down with Nick Frillman, Local Foods and Small Farms Educator, to uncover everything to know about persimmons. From American vs. Asian cultivars to tips for growing them in Illinois, cultivars, pollination, pruning, and harvesting tricks to avoid that dreaded cottonmouth.

Still looking for more? Listen to part two, where the three dig deeper into the fascinating world of specifically American persimmons (Diospyros virginiana). From tree identification and growing tips to wildlife connections and seed stratification.

Bust common myths, like whether persimmons need frost to ripen, and uncover quirky folklore, including the famous fork, knife, or spoon winter prediction.

🎧 Listen to anywhere you get your podcasts or online at https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-234-persimmon-growing-and-eating-illinois-sweetest-fruit-goodgrowing and https://extension.illinois.edu/podcasts/good-growing/ep-236-persimmon-growing-facts-folklore-goodgrowing

🔗 Read Nick’s personal connection and journey of growing persimmons in Illinois in the Flowers, Fruits, and Frass blog at https://extension.illinois.edu/blogs/flowers-fruits-and-frass/2025-12-11-my-persimmon-journey-continues

U of I Extension-Livingston, McLean, Woodford Counties

05/04/2026

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Food for Thought
The Native Elderberry, Sambucus Nigra Canadensis is blooming happily now along roadsides, in moist bottomlands and open prairie edges. It rivals many hydrandea as an attractive versatile shrub, great for large open landscapes. Good companions to this plant are Swamp Milkweed, Elm Leafed Goldenrod, Wild Bergamot and Nine Bark shrub, which is similar in texture and habit. Elderberry is a deciduous, spreading, sprawling plant that suckers and forms colonies. It is native to a large area of N. America, east of the Rocky Mts, and south to Bolivia.
This shrub was made famous by Elton John’s song, “Elderberry Wine” in the 1970’s. But the flowers and berries have long been used for jellies & pies, and healing properties were first noted by Hippocrates as early as 400 BC
Best of all, the Elderberry is an excellent food source for many species of birds, mammals and insects. They consume the fruit and spread the seeds far and wide. 👀 Healthy habitats provide food and shelter for everyone.

04/30/2026

📆🌳🐦¿Estás pensando en agregar un árbol o arbusto nativo a tu jardín esta primavera? UNION Impact Center y el Morton Arboretum tendrán una distribución gratuita el día viernes, 8 de mayo, de 5pm-7pm en Plaza Huitzil en el Barrio de las Empacadoras.

🌳🐦 Todavía tenemos cantidades limitadas del caqui común / common persimmon y el sauco americano / elderberry. Por favor dale un vistazo a los folletos y completa el formulario electrónico para seleccionar tu preferencia. Haremos todo lo posible por cumplir con la entrega deseada. ✍🏼📝bit.ly/3PuEnue

🌟💫✨ El caqui común / commonper simmon (diospyros virginiana) es un árbol frutal valioso para tener en casa, ofreciendo beneficios tanto nutricionales como estéticos y funcionales en el jardín. Se destaca principalmente por su resistencia, el valor ornamental de su follaje otoñal, la calidad de su madera y sus frutos comestibles.

🌟💫✨ El sauco americano / elderberry (sambucus canadensis) se destaca principalmente por sus múltiples usos medicinales tradicionales, su alto contenido nutricional y antioxidante, y su valor ornamental y ecológico.