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2018 Budget
...2017 — Forest Preserves of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today introduced the 2018 Budget Recommendation to the Forest Preserves of Cook County Board of Commissioners. The recommendation asks for total... -
2015 Budget
...Board President Toni Preckwinkle unveiled her 2015 Executive Budget Recommendation to the Board of Commissioners today. The proposed budget of $187.4 million is balanced without increases to individuals’ or businesses’... -
Prescribed Burning
...Periodic fires set by Native Americans—to clear land, renew food resources, pursue game and more—shaped our native prairies, savannas and woodlands over millennia. Prescribed burns carried out today emulate the... -
Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus
...toys, flower pots and pet bowls. Eggs usually hatch within two to three days. Adult Culex mosquitoes do not fly far from where they develop and can “over-winter” in protected... -
Requests for New or Improved Facilities, Amenities & Infrastructure
...municipality, grant or other source—please indicate it when filling out the form below. Within 15 business days we will notify the requester that we received the application and whether it... -
2019 Budget
...the property tax levy totaling $2.7 million, which captures inflationary growth as in past budgets, and other non-tax revenues totaling $1.7 million. The Corporate budget request, which funds the day-to-day... -
Forest Preserve District Archive
...district, the people who founded it, some of its day-to-day operations, and its planning, construction, and development. It includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, financial records, legal files, construction plans and blueprints,... -
People of the Preserves: November 2021
...think we would have a workday every Friday and once a month on Saturday if this was just about the plants. Really, you meet great people and it’s sort of become a community. I... -
Big Changes at Cranberry Slough
...the site. They did hold one winter workday, though, to take advantage of a donated professional sawyer crew from Atrium Landscape, whose owner, Kathy Bruch, is a dedicated Palos Restoration Project volunteer. The... -
Deer Diseases
...disease impacts white-tailed deer and other wild ruminants and can cause death within days or hours. It is transmitted to deer by a midge (a species of flying insect) bite...