[PCA] NEWS: Chicago Botanic Garden to break ground on $50 million conservation center

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Jun 3 12:44:03 CDT 2008


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-botanic-newcenterjun03,0,2749511.story

Chicago Botanic Garden to break ground on $50 million conservation center
By Lisa Black |Tribune reporter
12:29 AM CDT, June 3, 2008

The Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe is known for its knockout
landscapes and blooms, but it's more than just a pretty face.

The garden, which has boosted its cadre of scientists from two to 22
in the last decade, will break ground Tuesday on a $50 million
conservation science center to make its botanists more visible, give
them state-of-the-art laboratories to probe the mysteries of plant
life and enlarge its bank of prairie seeds and dried plants.

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