McCormick Place Bird Sanctuary Built in 2003, the McCormick Place Bird Sanctuary in Burnham Park became the Park District's fourth bird sanctuary on Chicago's lakefront. The 6-acre sanctuary contains two prairies, shrub and woodland habitat, and a freshwater stone birdbath. Together, these habitats provide food, resting places and shelter for some of the millions of birds that migrate along Chicago's lakefront every spring and fall.
South Shore Cultural Center Nature Sanctuary Community advocates had long dreamed of building a nature center on the peninsula behind the South Shore Cultural Center. The park district agreed and in 2001 began construction on the new sanctuary. A trail system loops around the sanctuary and includes a boardwalk that leads visitors along an emerging sand dune, over a small wetland, and through three and a half acres of prairie landscape.
