SuperCroc Skull

In planning… Scitopia Chicago is an exciting, one-of-a-kind teen learning hub and destination on Chicago’s Southside where you can…

Connect in an eCafé to online library resources and science books

Create in science and media makerspaces

Explore a lost world with dinosaur skeletons and live plants & animals

Ponder new ideas at a presentation or viewpoints at a community meeting

Did you know

. . . how studying science changes you?

. . . how many science jobs are out there?

. . . Washington Park once had alligators?

. . . how plants can affect you?

“Parks Alive! Program”

PaleoLab student practices fossil bones preparation in the Sereno Fossil Lab
EcoLab student looks for macroinvertebrates to assess the health of the Washington Park lagoon
PaleoLab students inspect ancient human skulls in the Alemseged Paleoanthropology Lab
Aerial image of Washington Park looking north