Article updated: 2/15/2013 4:48 PM

Expiring pact won't close DuPage-area state park

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State employees will have the task of opening James "Pate" Philip State Park in Bartlett on Monday because an operating agreement for the park is expiring.

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James “Pate” Philip State Park will remain open next week as the agencies that run and fund the Bartlett facility scramble to extend their operating agreement. But DuPage County Forest Preserve District staff members won't be the ones opening the parking lot gate a half-hour before sunrise Monday or closing it a half-hour after sunset.