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More than 13,000 square feet in the Regenstein Center is dedicated to classroom and laboratory space as the Chicago Botanic Garden pursues its goal to become the nation?EUR??,,????'?????<


The Chicago Botanic Garden will open the doors of the Regenstein Center, a newly renovated 100,000-square-footfacility, and dedicates the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006. Configured in the footprint of the former Education Center, which was designed in 1975 by Edward Larrabee Barnes, the Regenstein Center houses the Library, classrooms, two Bonsai Courtyards, spacious galleries and the Flower Show Hall.

Opening festivities mark the dedication of the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, which offers a degree program in plant biology and conservation, as well as more than 475 classes in subjects covering plants and people, gardening, nature and the environment, garden design and the botanical arts. Partnerships with Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Illinois Institute of Technology provide graduate, post-graduate and certificate programs, with the Garden?EUR??,,????'?????<

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