Several CSI member organizations operate fixed sites, some of which are available to the general public.   Those sites, along with their locations and hours of operation are listed here.

AWLI/Hammond Environmental Education Center:                                 Photo by Kevin P. Murphy © 2007

Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.

2405 Calumet Avenue

Hammond, IN  46327

Phone: (219) 853-2420 or

  1. (219)853-6622

http://www.gohammond.com/web/index.php?id=255,0,0,1,0,0

CSI Member Organizations' Museum and/or Learning Center Sites

James P. Fitzgibbons Memorial Museum of the Southeast Chicago Historical Society:

Dunes Learning Center

Hammond Environmental Education Center

SECHS President, Barney Janecki, invites              visitors into museum.

Photo by Joann M. Podkul © 2007

98th Street and Avenue G

(in the Calumet Park Field House)

Chicago, Illinois  60617

Hours: Thursdays, 1:00 - 4:00 P.M.

http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/sehsintro.htm

Pullman Civic Center:

11141 S. Cottage Grove Ave.             (Photo by Kevin P. Murphy © 2007)      

Chicago, Illinois 60628

Telephone: Telephone: (773) 785-8901

http://members.aol.com/PullmanIL/visitor.html

NEW Hours:

Tuesday-Sunday: 11:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Closed Mondays and Holidays

Closed Jan 1 thru Feb 14

Sand Ridge Nature Center:

                                                                                                                                             (Photo by Kevin P. Murphy © 2007)

•Sand Ridge Nature Center

•15890 Paxton Avenue

•South Holland, IL 60473

•On Paxton Ave. two blocks north of 159th St., South Holland

•(708) 868-0606

Nature Center Hours

March 1 through the last Saturday in October

•8:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. daily


Last Sunday in October through February 28

•8:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. daily


•All District Nature Center Exhibit Buildings open at 9 a.m. daily (CLOSED FRIDAYS)


•CLOSED on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Years Day                                                   

Taltree Arboretum and Gardens will open its new Railway Garden Depot in Spring, 2011.    Designed to be the entrance and visitors center of the Railway Garden, and the maintenance shop for the Railway Garden's rolling stock, the building will feature public meeting rooms and educational display materials.  Walkways will also lead from the Depot to the various railway garden settings. (Photo by Kevin Murphy)

Arboretum Hours: Summer (April - October)

Open 7 days a week - 8 am to 7 pm

Arboretum Hours: Winter (November - March)

Open 7 days a week - 8 am to 4 pm

Admission Fee: $5.00/Non-member Fee (ages 5 and under are Free)

Free to Taltree members

Office Hours

Monday through Friday - 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Office & Mailing Address:

Taltree Arboretum & Gardens

71 North 500 West

Valparaiso, Indiana 46385

Arboretum Grounds

Taltree Arboretum & Gardens, 450 West 100 North, Valparaiso,

Indiana 46385

Call or Fax Taltree:

Phone: (219) 462-0025

Fax: (219) 462-0848

Taltree Arboretum and Gardens