On Oct. 18, Forest Preserve District officials joined representatives from a local bike-and-run advisory committee along a new 1.7-mile section of limestone trail in Pratt s Wayne Woods Forest Preserve in Wayne to celebrate an important connection between the forest preserve s trails and the Elgin Branch of the Illinois Prairie Path.
Transporation planners will study how to realign a section of the Great Western Trail so it would instead cross County Farm at St. Charles Road, an intersection with a traffic signal.