The IPRA is in the early stages of preparing for a web site make-over and feedback from the members, and non-members alike, is crucial to successfully building a usable and valuable site.
Members of the IPRA were emailed Monday with a link to the survey in order to gain feedback into the online offerings provided by […]
It’s that time of year again! The IPRA Cooperative Purchase Program registration will begin Wednesday, August 8.
Each year, IPRA coordinates a Cooperative Purchase Program specifically for park districts, municipal recreation agencies, forest preserves, conservation districts, special recreation associations and private agencies throughout Illinois. The program is an excellent way for your agency to save […]
Here’s your chance to share the great work you are doing and to receive your due recognition!
Agencies in the Great Lakes Region of NRPA are invited and encouraged to apply for, or to nominate others for, the five (5) awards to be presented in 2007.
The award categories are designated on NRPA’s Web site with criteria […]
Laura Payne, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Office of Recreation and Park Resources Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism, recently sent the IPRA a great news article that ran in the Courier News.
Children spending more time indoors
By Mike Danahey, Courier News, Staff Writer
After Lauri Schumacher and her family moved from Elgin to Sleepy […]
The IPRA would like to invite you to join us on Friday, September 14 for the 3rd Annual Park Pursuit! Park and recreation professionals from around the state will come together in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood for a day worth remembering.
The Park Pursuit, modeled after the hugely successful Amazing Race game, allows for the professional and […]
The IPRA and the Western Golf Association are happy to offer all IPRA member’s a 15% discount on all daily and weekly ticket options for the 2007 BMW Championship golf tournament this September 3-9.
Come see the top 70 PGA TOUR professionals compete in the PGA TOUR’s new FedExCup. The BMW Championship is the third of […]
What are you doing August 2 and 4? Did you know that IPRA’s hugely discounted passes to Great America and Hurricane Harbor are not just for daycamp groups?
Take a day off with your family and friends to recreate this summer. Get soaked on the raft rides. Have a laugh. Take a […]
Created in 1975, the Hershey’s Track & Field Games is the largest youth sports program of its kind in the United States and Canada. Meets take place in every state and every province in North America, and the grand finale — the North American Final Meet — takes place in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
The goal of Hershey’s […]
On Saturday, July 21 you are invited to play in the hottest backyard game known to man…bags!
This tournament, brought to you by the Rolling Meadows Park District Foundation, the Terry Moran Family Foundation and BAGGO, will award cash prizes to the first and second place teams.
If you haven’t played bags before it’s super fun! […]
On this episode of theVOICE we met up with IPRA’s chair of the Environmental Committee, Cheryl Toohey of the Skokie Park District.
This passionate committee has accomplished a number of great things this past year - including a Model Environmental Policy, an Environmental Toolkit and an Environmental Report Card for agencies to use when evaluating their […]