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Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden
The Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden () is a botanical garden located within the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. It is located just off State Route 47, north of Interstate 74, in Mahomet, Illinois. History The garden is named after H.I. Gelvin's wife, Mabery, who died in 1971. Gelvin, as founder of the Forest Preserve District, donated $100,000 to build a garden and designed the garden with the aid of University of Illinois students. The garden was dedicated on June 30, 1974. In 2014, renovations were conducted to bolster the garden's infrastructure, such as the waterfall, pond, and accessible paths. A ceremony was held on September 12, 2019, to celebrate the completion. In March 2022, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Museum Capital Grant Program awarded $726,900 in grant funding to the Champaign County Forest Preserve District. The grant helped provide plant production space and upgrade greenhouse infrastructure. Features The garden includes waterfalls, a J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, and is the more usual term in the United Kingdom. is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. Typically plants are labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cactus, cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants. Most are at least partly open to the public, and may offer guided tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances, and other entertainment. Botanical gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahomet, Illinois
Mahomet () is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 9,434 at the 2020 census. Mahomet is located approximately 10 miles northwest of Champaign at the junction of Interstate 74 and IL 47. Geography Mahomet is located at (40.192384, -88.402115). According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Mahomet has a total area of , of which (or 99.29%) is land and (or 0.71%) is water. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 9,434 people, 3,030 households, and 2,501 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 3,594 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 89.47% White, 1.08% African American, 0.19% Native American, 2.78% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.81% from other races, and 5.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.51% of the population. There were 3,030 households, out of which 85.18% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 72.24% were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botanical Garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, and is the more usual term in the United Kingdom. is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. Typically plants are labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant collections such as cactus, cacti and other succulent plants, herb gardens, plants from particular parts of the world, and so on; there may be greenhouses, shadehouses, again with special collections such as tropical plants, alpine plants, or other exotic plants. Most are at least partly open to the public, and may offer guided tours, educational displays, art exhibitions, book rooms, open-air theatrical and musical performances, and other entertainment. Botanical gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Of The Woods Forest Preserve
Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve is a county park of in size, located adjacent to Lake of the Woods, Illinois, USA. It is operated by the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, a governmental agency of Champaign County, Illinois, and the forest preserve district has built their headquarters in the park. History The forest preserve opened its first park in 1948. Features Museum The forest preserve is the host site of the ''Museum of the Grand Prairie'', a living history facility that specializes in the human ecology of the former tallgrass prairie townships of eastern Illinois. The museum features an exhibit on the 1850s-era law practice of Abraham Lincoln, a reconstructed blacksmith shop, and children's museum installations. As a private-sector lawyer, Lincoln's practice encompassed a circuit of Illinois counties that included Champaign County. Botanical garden The forest preserve is also the host site of the Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden, a botanical garden lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 (IL 47) is a largely rural north–south state highway that runs from the Wisconsin state border at Highway 120 (Wisconsin), Highway 120 near Hebron, Illinois, Hebron, to Illinois Route 10, IL 10, just south of Interstate 72 (I-72) near Seymour, Illinois, Seymour. IL 47 is in primarily rural areas but in several suburbs of Chicago, such as Woodstock, Illinois, Woodstock, traffic can be heavily congested. IL 47 crosses most interstate highways in northern and central Illinois, but the largest towns that it serves are Woodstock, Illinois, Woodstock (at U.S. Route 14 in Illinois, US 14), Huntley, Illinois, Huntley (at Interstate 90 in Illinois, I-90), Lily Lake, Illinois, Lily Lake at (Illinois Route 64, IL 64), Elburn, Illinois, Elburn (at IL 38), Sugar Grove, Illinois, Sugar Grove (at U.S. Route 30 in Illinois, US 30), Yorkville, Illinois, Yorkville (at U.S. Route 34 in Illinois, US 34), Morris, Illinois, Morris (at Interstate 80 in Illinois, I-80), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interstate 74 In Illinois
Interstate 74 (I-74) in the US state of Illinois is a major northwest–southeast Interstate Highway that runs across the central portion of the state. It runs from the Iowa state line at the Mississippi River near the city of Rock Island and runs southeast to the Indiana state line east of Danville, a distance of . The highway runs through the major cities of Champaign, Bloomington, Peoria, and Moline. The highway is officially named after Everett McKinley Dirksen, a Republican senator and representative from Pekin from 1933 to his death in 1969. Route description I-74 in Illinois runs parallel with U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in the Quad Cities, US 150 from the Quad Cities to Danville, and US 136 east of Danville. Iowa state line to Bloomington–Normal After crossing the Iowa state line and the Mississippi River via the I-74 Bridge ( through arch span), I-74, as well as US 6, enters the city of Moline. At first, the freeway travels sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867. Enrolling over 56,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the country. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". In fiscal year 2019, research expenditures at Illinois totaled $652 million. The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States by holdings after Harvard University. The university also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and is home to the fastest supercomputer on a university campus. The u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Botanic Garden
The Chicago Botanic Garden is a living plant museum situated on nine islands in the Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens in four natural habitats: McDonald Woods, Dixon Prairie, Skokie River Corridor, and Lakes and Shores. The garden is open every day of the year. An admission fee has been approved to start in 2022, not to exceed $35. The Chicago Botanic Garden is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, and managed by the Chicago Horticultural Society. It opened to the public in 1972, and is home to the Joseph Regenstein Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, offering a number of classes and certificate programs. The Chicago Botanic Garden is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is a member of the American Public Gardens Association (APGA). Garden facts The Chicago Botanic Garden has 50,000 members, the largest membership of any U.S. public garden, and is Chicago's 7th largest cultural institution and 12th-ranking tourist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Botanical Gardens In The United States
This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.BGCI Garden Search |
Botanical Gardens In Illinois
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word (''botanē'') meaning "pasture", "herbs" "grass", or "fodder"; is in turn derived from (), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including approximately 369,000 species of flowering plants), and approximately 20,000 are bryophytes. Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, medici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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