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Pledge Status

Active

Pledge Date

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Program Year

2026

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City of Woodstock

Woodstock, IL

Michael Turner

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Woodstock, Illinois, is home to approximately 25,000 residents and is located in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. The city is home to 553 acres of parkland, including developed parks, natural areas, community gardens, and open spaces. Mayor Michael Turner is committed to saving the monarch butterfly and other pollinators by signing the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge on February 17th, 2026. The City of Woodstock, alongside its residents and environmental ambassadors, vows to continue engaging with our community to encourage pollinator habitat rehabilitation. 2026 marks the fifth year of Woodstock’s commitment.

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Action Items Committed for 2026

Communications and Convening ▸

Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.

Systems Change ▸

Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Mayor Michael Turner	2026	2/11/2026		View Pledge
Mayor Michael Turner	2025	1/28/2025	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Michael Turner	2024	1/9/2024	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Michael Turner	2023	2/8/2023	Signatories	View Pledge
Mayor Michael Turner	2022	2/16/2022	Signatories	View Pledge