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Cronin, Pierotti quietly huddle, then scuttle county-forest merger

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A secret, top-level meeting was held between DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin and forest preserve district President D. Dewey Pierotti on the possible undoing of a decade-old split between their two entities. Yet both now say they're not in favor of re-creating a combined county and forest preserve agency.