Articles filed under Forest Preserve Districts
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Higgins Road bike bridge construction starts MondayJul 03, 2013 5:15 am - Construction will begin Monday, July 8, on the long-awaited bicycle and pedestrian bridge over Higgins Road in Busse Woods east of Route 53. And perhaps equally welcome ...
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Forest preserve commissioner donates part of salary to Graue MillJul 02, 2013 5:13 pm - Late last week Graue Mill officials took a “leap of faith” by purchasing a $6,000 corn grinder to get them through the milling season. On Tuesday, a DuPage County Fores...
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Cops seek help identifying remains found near WheatonJul 01, 2013 12:00 pm - The DuPage County sheriff's office is again asking the public for help identifying a human skull found more than three years ago at a Wheaton-area forest preserve. Auth...
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Graue Mill to be selling cornmeal by next weekJun 27, 2013 5:45 pm - Cornmeal is expected to be on Graue Mill’s shelves again as soon as Wednesday afternoon. The stone-ground cornmeal won’t be produced by the museum’s 161-year-old water w...
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Graue Mill could resume grinding next weekJun 27, 2013 5:30 am - The 161-year-old Graue Mill could be producing authentic stone-ground cornmeal again by next week. But it may cost officials at the museum and historic mill along York ...
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Summer concert series at Independence GroveJun 26, 2013 1:54 pm - Music lovers, get ready for award-winning performers teeming with energy, freshness and talent at the Lake County Forest Preserve District’s Events in the Plaza outdoor ...
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Forest preserve to study structure, uses for McKee HouseJun 25, 2013 5:36 pm - Once a perennial target for the nearest wrecking ball, the fate of the historic McKee House at Churchill Woods Forest Preserve near Glen Ellyn finally may be determined ...
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Springbrook Prairie now a designated nature preserveJun 25, 2013 7:55 am - DuPage County’s Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve recently garnered an extra layer of protection against future development. The forest preserve district Saturday cele...
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New program teaches kids about nature and songwritingJun 24, 2013 10:43 am - Submitted by McHenry County Conservation District Bring out the “natural” musician in your children … enroll them in McHenry County Conservation District’s newest progra...
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High court sends back Texas race-based planJun 24, 2013 9:28 am - WASHINGTON — Affirmative action in college admissions survived Supreme Court review Monday in a consensus decision that avoided the difficult constitutional issues surro...