Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

2025

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Village of Lincolnwood

Lincolnwood , IL

Jesal Patel

Village President

Pledge Summary

The Village of Lincolnwood is located approximately 10 miles north of downtown Chicago and serves as the gateway to Chicagoland’s North Shore. It is an diverse community of 12,590 residents, with tree-lined streets, beautiful neighborhoods and parks, an excellent school system, and prosperous business community. The Village commitment to monarch's is strong through efforts to improve or create new native plantings and communications related to sustainable landscaping in the Village's parks, trails, and right of ways.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2025

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.
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 ▸

Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.

Systems Change ▸

Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Village President Jesal Patel	2026	1/12/2026		View Pledge
Village President Jesal Patel	2025	3/20/2025	Signatories	View Pledge
Village President Jesal Patel	2024	3/28/2024	Signatories	View Pledge
Village President Jesal Patel	2023	4/27/2023	Signatories	View Pledge
Village President Jesal Patel	2022	4/5/2022	Signatories	View Pledge