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Skokie Lagoons is a nature preserve in Glencoe and Winnetka, Illinois, owned and managed by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. [2] The park is bordered by Dundee Road to the north, Forestway Drive to the east, Willow Road to the south, and the Edens Expressway to the west.
Built in 1933 to house Civilian Conservation Corps laborers, working on the Skokie Lagoons Project, Camp Skokie Valley was left abandoned in 1942 and became a regular Army garrison. The camp was home to the 740th Military Police Battalion, a Zone of the Interior unit responsible for protecting defense plants and government assets in the Chicago ...
The Skokie Lagoons are located in the forest preserve to the immediate west of the village. The same forest preserve has a bicycle trail that connects to other forest preserves to the south. In the village, the Green Bay Trail allows bicyclists to travel as far south as Wilmette and north past Lake Forest. The highest point of elevation in ...
Skokie Village Board members introduced an ordinance at the March 4 village board meeting that would limit Airbnb, VRBO and other short-term rentals. The ordinance could restrict the number of ...
The United States Economic Census [4] tracks down to the Recreational Goods Rental level only, [5] and canoe livery is a subclass of this category. As of 2002, the category had 1,757 establishments employing at least one employee, with revenue of US$521,783,000 and a payroll of US$126,376,000 covering 7,416 people. [ 6 ]
The Skokie River (or East Fork of the North Branch of the Chicago River) is a 20-mile-long (32 km) [1] river that flows through the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It flows almost parallel to the shore of Lake Michigan , and historically discharged its outflow into that lake via the Chicago River .
This is a list of lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. state of Illinois.The lakes are ordered by their unique names, (i.e. Lake Smith or Smith Lake would both be listed under "S").
Skokie may refer to Skokie, Illinois, a village in Cook County, Illinois National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie; Skokie, a movie about the NSPA Controversy in Skokie; Skokie (rocket), a parachute test rocket used by the U.S. Air Force; Skokie Lagoons, a nature preserve in Cook County, Illinois