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Radio Extra: Team Uses Google Earth to Determine Chicago Garden Count

By  Jon Hansen and Casey Cora | October 28, 2014 6:05pm 

 Gardening in a densely populated area brings about special challenges. Here, an urban garden grows vertically.
Gardening in a densely populated area brings about special challenges. Here, an urban garden grows vertically.
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John Robert Taylor

CHINATOWN — Perhaps Google Earth can add a "garden view" option soon. 

Two University of Illinois researchers scoured over the program in an attempt to determine just how many gardens there were in Chicago. 

John R. Taylor and Sarah Taylor Lovell found existing lists of Chicago's woefully incomplete and outdated. Their research found more than 4,000 gardens in the city, with an abundance in the Bridgeport, Armour Square, and Chinatown neighborhoods. 

On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Casey Cora dives into why a large number of gardens are in his coverage area, and what the study hopes to accomplish: 

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