Learning Campus Opens at Chicago Botanic Garden

GLENCOE, IL - The Regenstein Learning Campus opened to the public for the first time over the weekend at the Chicago Botanic Garden.

The classrooms and facilities at the seven-acre center were viewed by hundreds for the first time on Saturday, according to a Glencoe News article.

The learning center takes up about 28,000 square feet on the northern edge of the garden. According to the CBG it will build on the garden’s “core strengths” by “enhancing existing programs and engaging new audiences in an expanded, welcoming learning environment.”

It will “significantly extend the Garden’s commitment to early childhood education and enable it to train a wide audience of early childhood caregivers and educators in the developmental theory and practice of nature play.”

"When the Botanic Garden first opened in 1972, it was the vision of the founders to have a space dedicated to education and outreach," said Jennifer Schwarz Ballard, the Garden's vice president for education and community programs.

Photo via the Chicago Botanic Garden