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Tucked among the factories and plants dotting south suburban Ford Heights is Sauk Trail Woods, a forest preserve where Cook County taxpayers are bankrolling an effort to beat back a pernicious invader. On a crisp, sunny Wednesday in late November, Troy Showerman, resource project manager for the Cook County Forest Preserve District, points to one of the few short trees that still holding its .
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It s Fire Season — On Purpose — In the Region s Forest Preserves Cook County Has a New Map of Prescribed Burn Sites | Chicago News wttw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wttw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sauk Trail Lake South, "a thousand acres of incomparable scenery," was labeled “for white people only” in the 1937 Chicago Recreation Survey.