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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. Within the park, there are seven inter-connected lagoons totaling 190 acres (0.77 km 2). Water flows southward from the Chicago Botanic Garden through the lagoons to the Skokie River. The overall water ...
The trail splits at Tower Road, looping around the Skokie Lagoons. This offers an excellent tour of this locally famous conservation effort performed during the depths of the Great Depression. A commemorative plaque can be found honoring the Civilian Conservation Corps work, just east of the Edens Expressway and north of Willow Rd.
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 .
Camp Skokie Valley was a United States Army installation built in Glenview, Illinois, north of Chicago. Its archaeological remnants are found in Blue Star Memorial Woods, a property owned and managed by the Cook County Forest Preserve District .
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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") . Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
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The majority of the road, from Rand Road in Palatine to US 41 (Skokie Highway) in Northbrook is maintained by the Cook County Highway Department [2] designated Cook County Trunk Highway A50. The Cook County-maintained stretch is four lanes wide, with the exception of the stretch between Lexington Drive and Wilmot Road where it is six lanes wide.