Articles filed under Forest Preserve Districts
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Festival celebrates Lake County's farming pastSep 23, 2012 8:30 pm - The grain was flying, the turkeys were strutting, and the calls of an auctioneer filled the air at the 20th Annual Farm Heritage Festival Sunday at the Lakewood Forest P...
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Attitude toward animals NeanderthalSep 23, 2012 4:40 am - It’s been said that you can judge a society by the way it treats its animals. If that’s the case, future generations surely will believe that Illinois legislators and Ka...
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Lake County Discovery Museum hosts new Dickens exhibit starting Sept. 29Sep 21, 2012 1:27 pm - The legendary Charles Dickens and his beloved characters Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Tiny Tim and scores of others have proliferated and endured in popular culture, ...
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Calabresa, Parra talk about Fort Sheridan’s futureSep 18, 2012 10:00 am - The candidates running for the Lake County Board’s 15th District seat have very different visions for the future of the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve. Republican incumbe...
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Ann Maine challenged by Arlene Hickory in Lake County Board District 21Sep 15, 2012 8:00 am - Lincolnshire resident Ann Maine, who hasn't faced an opponent in the general election since being easily elected to the Lake County Board in 2002, says her record of fis...
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Revised Fabyan site plan has just one mountain biking trailSep 12, 2012 1:00 pm - The east woods of Fabyan Forest Preserve stayed in, but one of two mountain biking trails is out of the concept plan for developing a recreational complex on the site of...
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Kane County OKs cost study for Fabyan ideaSep 12, 2012 12:00 pm - The Kane County Board on Tuesday hired a firm to figure out the fiscal impact of developing a recreational complex at the old jail site and Settler’s Hill landfill in Ge...
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Fiestas Patrias at GreenbeltSep 11, 2012 5:16 pm - Celebrate independence for Mexico and Central American countries, including Belize, Honduras and Guatemala, at Fiestas Patrias from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16 at a fre...
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Forest preserve set to cooperate with Addison access roadSep 11, 2012 12:53 pm - DuPage County Forest Preserve officials are poised to allow Addison to use forest preserve land for a temporary access road that some residents have opposed. The distric...
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Lake County forest board inks $438,000 land deals to expand Lake Carina, Independence Grove preservesSep 11, 2012 12:33 pm - Two Lake County forest preserves will get some extra acreage under land deals approved Tuesday. One purchase adds 9.5 acres to the Lake Carina Forest Preserve near Gurne...