Articles filed under Kane County Forest Preserve District
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Rescue me - or not? Why you should leave wild animals beMay 31, 2013 3:53 pm - A minivan pulled up to the edge of a forest preserve at dusk. A woman hurried out of the car and furtively headed into the tall grass, carrying a box in her arms. In a m...
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Creek Bend Nature Center hosts its grand opening celebrationMay 30, 2013 3:00 pm - The Forest Preserve District of Kane County invites you to its Creek Bend Nature Center's grand opening celebration from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at LeRoy Oak...
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Settler's Hill redevelopment talk gearing up againMay 20, 2013 5:00 am - There hasn't been much public discussion of the major redevelopment plans for the 700-acre Fabyan Parkway/Settler's Hill campus owned by Kane County and the forest prese...
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Kane County law librarian loved to help othersMay 15, 2013 5:04 pm - Adella N. Wolff, a lifelong Elgin resident, former Kane County law librarian and wife to a former county board chairman, recently died at the age of 93. Wolff, who was ...
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Sugar Grove, Aurora, Kane parks agencies get state grantsMay 15, 2013 11:00 am - The Sugar Grove Park District, the Fox Valley Park District and the Kane County Forest Preserve District are each due to receive $400,000 from the state for building and...
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Look, but stay back from great horned owl babyApr 30, 2013 12:02 pm - A baby great horned owl is drawing spectators to the Fabyan Forest Preserve near the Japanese Garden on the west side. But curious viewers were getting too close to its ...
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Spring beauty wildflowers live up to their nameApr 24, 2013 1:08 pm - Native Illinois wildflower lives up to its name
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Elgin council OKs plan to split land between agenciesApr 10, 2013 11:00 pm - In just over a month or so, the former Fox River Country Day School property is expected to be divvied up among the city of Elgin, the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation and...
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Soft maples deserve respect, tooMar 25, 2013 2:38 pm - If you’re graceful, tall, and beautiful, you’ve got a lot going for you. If you’re breathtakingly beautiful in fall colors, and if you’re the sweetest thing around come ...
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Judge dismisses wrongful death lawsuit in 2011 Geneva dam drowningMar 22, 2013 1:25 pm - A judge has thrown out a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of a Naperville man who drowned in August 2011 saving his girlfriend’s son from the boil created by t...