Join Our Efforts
Become a member of Friends of the Chicago River — your financial contribution matters
As a community-based organization, it is important for Friends to have a large group of members who support our efforts. Beyond your financial contribution, membership shows that you support our work to improve the river for people, plants and animals. Find out more about Friends of the Chicago River membership.
We also offer specific opportunities to support Friends’ work at the Bridgehouse Museum:
Join our museum’s Insider Club
With unlimited free museum admission, special discounts, invitations to lectures and events and more, our new Insider Club is a value-based opprtunity for individuals and families to support the Bridgehouse Museum. Find out more about Insider Club levels and benefits.
Demonstrate your company’s civic and environmental leadership
Joining the Bridgehouse Museum Corporate Club positions your company as a champion of both responsible environmental stewardship and Chicago’s cultural vibrancy. Benefits include complimentary museum admission you can share with your employees, associates and clients; market exposure and recognition; and much more. Find out more about Corporate Club levels and benefits.
Our Corporate Club supporters have included:
- Crain’s Chicago Business - lead member
- Pircher, Nichols & Meeks
- Jenner & Block LLP
- Lowis & Gellen LLP
- Gensler
- McBride Kelley Baurer
- Solomon Cordwell Buenz
- Alfred Benesch & Company
- Belgravia Group Ltd.
- Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects
- Studio Gang Architects
Impact thousands of visitors and the museum’s future
A naming gift to the Bridgehouse Museum sends a strong message to our community and visitors that an individual or business has generously contributed their support for Friends of the Chicago River’s work to protect and improve the river. Your gift helps Friends’ efforts to inform and inspire thousands of visitors each year, provide quality exhibits and develop impactful educational programs at our museum. Name a step, a view or our gear room. Find out more about Bridgehouse Museum naming gifts.
The following foundations, individuals and companies have made generous naming gifts to the museum:
- McCormick Foundation, for whom the museum was named
- Robert G. Friedman Foundation
- The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
- Robert T. Friedman Family Foundation
- HNTB Corporation
- Ozinga
- Howard Trienens Family
- Mitsubishi International Corporation - Chicago Branch
- Craig and Kate Coit
- Bob & Peg Cunningham
- Philip and Robin Darrow
- Daniel Drew
- Jaimee & Marshall Field Foundation
- H. James and Mary Alexis Fox
- Midwest Generation, EME
- Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust
- William and Sheryl A. Sharp
- Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. Foundation
