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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.
Name Image Affiliation City Coordinates Anderson Japanese Gardens: Rockford: Bethalto Arboretum Bethalto: Cantigny: Wheaton: Century Park Arboretum Vernon Hills
The Village of Addison lies on Salt Creek, a tributary of the Des Plaines River. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Addison has a total area of 10.00 square miles (25.90 km 2), of which 9.83 square miles (25.46 km 2) (or 98.29%) is land and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km 2) (or 1.71%) is water. [12]
The village's first school, Wilmot School, was founded in 1847. Originally a one-room schoolhouse, Wilmot is now an elementary school which serves 548 students. It is located on land donated by Lyman Wilmot, whose wife, Clarissa, was the village's first schoolteacher. [5] The village was incorporated in 1903 [6] with a population in the low 400s.
Tinley Park (formerly Bremen) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States (with a small portion in Will County), and is a suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census , the population was 55,971, [ 3 ] and it is among the fastest-growing suburbs southwest of Chicago.
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Cul-de-sac near Village Hall in Addison Army Trail Road is a 16.4-mile (26.4 km) [ 1 ] county road in parts of DuPage and Kane Counties , Illinois . Army Trail Road begins at Illinois Route 25 in Wayne and ends at the Addison Village Hall east of John F. Kennedy Drive in a cul de sac in Addison .
Oak Forest is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.It is mostly surrounded by Cook County Forest Preserves (hence the name). Some neighboring communities of Oak Forest include Crestwood to the north, Midlothian to the northeast, Markham to the east, Country Club Hills to the southeast, Tinley Park to the southwest, Orland Park to the west, and beyond Bachelor's Grove Cemetery and Forest ...