Chicago Botanical Garden, 2006. The Chicago Botanic Garden is located at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois. It is open daily except Christmas Day. Admission is free, but visitors must pay the parking fee.
The garden, 385 acres, contains some 2.2 million plants representing more than 8,000 taxa, displayed in landscape settings. One-third of the site is devoted to horticultural display; another third is native habitats; and the remaining third is lakes and facilities.