Chicago - The Green Roof Capital Of North America?

Hummingbirds hover over wildflowers. Bees buzz around their honeycomb hive. Stray crabapples litter the base of a small tree. It’s a typical garden, save for the backdrop of skyscrapers, parking garages, and honks coming from the urban streets below. The rooftop garden on Chicago’s City Hall building may seem out of place, but it ranks as an engineering and environmental feat retrofitted atop the 11-story structure, “greenroofed” a full 90 years after it was built in 1911. Click to read the entire story…..

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