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The Palos Forest Preserves are 15,000 acres of forest preserves in the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, located principally in Palos Township, Illinois. [1] During the 1930s, the area of the Palos Preserves south of Archer was known as the Argonne Forest.
Red Gate Woods is a forest preserve section within the Palos Forest Preserve, a division of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois. It is located near where the Cal-Sag Channel meets the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Swallow Cliff Woods is an 800-acre [1] nature preserve located near Palos Park, Illinois, in the Palos Forest Preserves. [2] It was built in 1930 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and operated by the Cook County Forest Preserve District. One of the highlights is a 100 foot bluff with 125 limestone stairs of varying heights.
The Forest Preserve District owns 22 sites containing high-quality conservation resources that have been designated as Illinois Nature Preserves ensuring increased management and protection. [12] The District's oldest nature center is in a preserved rural one-room schoolhouse built in 1886 and is located in the Palos Division. [13]
Palos Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2020 census , its population was 56,836, [ 2 ] with its most populous municipality being Palos Hills (pop. 17,484). The vast majority of the township's population resides in its eastern half; the half west of La Grange Road consists of the Palos Forest Preserves , a ...
The Site A/Plot M Disposal Site is located within Red Gate Woods in the Palos Forest Preserves, part of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. The site contains buried radioactive waste from contaminated building debris, and the Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1/CP-2), and Chicago Pile-3 (CP-3) nuclear reactors.
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It is located in the Palos Forest Preserves of Cook County, Illinois, [1] on wetland that was drained but was later reverted to a lake starting in 1948-1949 by the construction of dams and levees. [3] Saganashkee Slough, like other segments of the Cal-Sag canal and valley system, drains into the Des Plaines River and ultimately into the ...