Summer jobs for under-served Chicago youth and young military veterans…ecological improvements to at-risk habitats, watersheds and city parks…free environmental education instruction and activities for hundreds of Chicago K-12th graders. SCA has revealed some exciting news in the Windy City: with the first half of a two-year, $1 million grant from BP America, SCA is expanding service, career and leadership opportunities for Chicago youth and connecting thousands of school children to nature in a partnership Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls “inspiring and empowering.” Along with BP, we’re teaming up with the Chicago Parks District, Cook County Forest Preserve, Friends of the Forest Preserves and Openlands to restore precious regional resources and advance the U.S. Interior Department’s 21st Century Conservation Service Corps, a national campaign to put America’s young people and returning veterans to work protecting, restoring and enhancing America’s great outdoors.