Kane County s ability to help outside agencies with Grand Victoria Riverboat gambling proceeds fell to a new low Wednesday as county board members unveiled $560,000 in riverboat grant funds. That s a big drop from the more than $1 million in grants the county was handing out six years ago.
Thousands of new trees coming to Brunner Forest Preserve
Updated 12/15/2020 6:41 PM
The Brunner Forest Preserve will be home to more than 6,000 new trees as part of a revised agreement between Kane County forest district and transportation officials, but it s going to be a while before there any real changes.
The revised plan comes as part of the forest preserve district s decision to not revive the lodge or business operations of the former Raging Buffalo Snowboard Park in Algonquin. An older deal had the district working with Kane County Division of Transportation officials to rebuild the lodge. The deal also included paying the district $500,000 in exchange for allowing KDOT to dump excess soil from the Longmeadow Parkway project at the Raging Buffalo site to redo the ski and sledding slopes.