Keeping Chicagoland clean and beautiful for more than 20 years.

Keep Chicago Beautiful's mission is keeping Chicagoland clean and beautiful. That takes good solid waste management practices.

Using less stuff. Recycling, composting, and reusing things. Sending the rest to landfills. Preventing litter. Spiffing up our neighborhoods. Find out how you can be "part of the solution, not part of the pollution."

Founded in 1987, Keep Chicago Beautiful, Inc., an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that works with Chicagoland’s business community, schools, neighborhoods and government agencies to improve our environment through education, public awareness and community involvement.

For more than 20 years, Keep Chicago Beautiful has successfully taught the program known nationwide as the 'Chicago Model' of the "Waste in Place" curriculum to thousands of school teachers and those studying to be teachers, in the Chicago area, who, in turn, have taught hundreds of thousands of children the key concepts of the benefits of eliminating litter and reducing solid waste through conservation, reuse and recycling.

Joyce Kagan Charmatz, President
Phone: 312-863-6196
Fax: 312-863-6194
Email: joyce@kcb.org