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The Ned Brown Forest Preserve, popularly known as Busse Woods, adjoining Rolling Meadows, Elk Grove Village and Schaumburg in Illinois, is a 3,700-acre (1,500 ha) unit of the Cook County Forest Preserve system. It is named after Edward "Ned" Eagle Brown.
Elk Grove Village is a village in Cook and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Per the 2020 census , the population was 32,812. [ 4 ] Located 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Chicago along the Golden Corridor , the Village of Elk Grove Village was incorporated on July 17, 1956. [ 1 ]
Elk Grove Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 95,508 and it contained 40,299 housing units. [ 1 ] Elk Grove Township formerly housed the United Airlines headquarters.
Flood control dams were constructed along the creek in 1978 within the Ned Brown Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village, Illinois, creating the 590-acre (2.4 km 2) Busse Lake. A diversion tunnel was constructed approximately 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of the confluence with the Des Plaines River, at a point where the two streams are separated by ...
Illinois 72 runs concurrently for one block with Illinois Route 83 in Elk Grove Township, and Illinois Route 47 and U.S. Highway 20 by Starks, an unincorporated village approximately 60 miles (97 km) from Chicago. The latter is a Wrong-way concurrency, where one can be driving both west on Illinois 72 and east on U.S. 20 at the same time. West ...
Community Consolidated School District 59 (CCSD59) is a school district based in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The school district serves most of Elk Grove Village while serving parts of Arlington Heights, Mount Prospect, and Des Plaines. The district has 11 elementary schools, 3 junior high schools, and an early learning center.
For example, DeKalb County contains a 1,000-acre (4.0 km 2) forest preserve system [citation needed] and a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) state park (Shabbona Lake State Park); within DeKalb County, the DeKalb Park District in the City of DeKalb has a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) park system.
It is also known as Lewis and Clark State Park. Main attractions at the site include a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m 2 ) interpretive center and an outdoor replica of Camp River Dubois . [ 1 ] The interpretive center contains a theater, multiple hands-on exhibits and displays, and a 55-foot (17 m) full-scale cutaway keelboat.