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The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County is a governmental agency headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, United States.Its mission is to acquire and hold lands containing forests, prairies, wetlands, and associated plant communities or lands capable of being restored to such natural conditions for the purpose of protecting and preserving the flora, fauna and scenic beauty for the education ...
The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County purchased the first tract of land for this preserve from Alexander McDowell in 1930. This original tract consisted of about 62 acres adjoining the West Branch of the DuPage River. McDowell Grove was home to a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp from 1934 to 1943. During that time the camp housed ...
website, operated by the Forest Preserve District of Will County in 525-acre McKinley Woods - Kerry Sheridan Grove Fullersburg Woods Nature Education Center: Oak Brook: DuPage: Chicago area: Operated by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, 226 acres, exhibits on area natural history The Grove: Glenview: Cook: Chicago area
The DuPage River and the Salt Creek flow through DuPage County. According to the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, the highest point in the county is located at the Mallard Lake Landfill, which at its highest point is 982 feet (299 m) above mean sea level. [15]
Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve contain Native American burial mounds, [26] and borders Red Hawk Park [27] Timber Ridge Forest Preserve, [28] West DuPage Woods Forest Preserve, [29] and Belleau Woods Forest Preserve. [30] West Branch DuPage River Trail passes through Winfield. [31] [32] [33] Klein Creek Golf Club offers an 18-hole golf course. [34]
From 1980 to 1983, Schillerstrom prosecuted cases as an assistant state's attorney for DuPage County. [1] He later served as chairman of the DuPage County Board from December 1998 through December 2010. On June 28, 2009, Schillerstrom announced to a group of about 200 supporters in Naperville that he would seek the office of Governor of ...
The rear façade of Mayslake Hall. The Mayslake Peabody Estate is an estate constructed as a country home for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1922. [3] The estate is located in the western Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, and is now part of the Mayslake Forest Preserve administered by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.
Waterfall Glen is a forest preserve in Downers Grove Township, DuPage County, Illinois, between the towns of Darien and Lemont, covering 2,492 acres (1,008 ha). It contains several waterfalls on Sawmill Creek as it empties into the Des Plaines River. Rocky Glen Falls, the largest waterfall in the preserve, is actually a natural dam in the ...