![a group of tents set up in the woods in the 1920s](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fpdcc-uic-archive-dam-no2-FPDCC_00_01_0011_011-200x114.jpg)
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Sign Up for Newsletter![a group of tents set up in the woods in the 1920s](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fpdcc-uic-archive-dam-no2-FPDCC_00_01_0011_011-200x114.jpg)
![men and women sitting in a field of flowers around 1900](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fpdcc-uic-archive-men-women-field-FPDCC_00_01_0001_028-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: Who Put the “Forest” in the Forest Preserves?
![Left: Dwight H. Perkins II, Middle: Dwight Perkins, Right: L. Bradford Perkins](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/dwight-perkins-grandsons-feb15-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: An Interview With Dwight Perkins’ Grandsons
Forest Preserve Proposition of 1914: The Day Cook County Said Yes to Nature
![Aldo Leopold sitting on a rock and looking into a valley at Rio Gavilan](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/aldo-leopold-rio-gavilan-1936-37-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: Aldo Leopold and the Forest Preserves
![two people fishing in the Forest Preserves in the 1920s](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fpdcc-uic-archive-fishing-FPDCC_00_06_0006_0194-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: First Catch — Initial Fish & Water Management in the Forest Preserves
![a group of tents set up in the woods in the 1920s](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fpdcc-uic-archive-dam-no2-FPDCC_00_01_0011_011-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: Truck Gardens and Tent Colonies — Early Uses of the Forest Preserves
![a prescribed burn at Crabtree Nature Center in 1974](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/crabtree-nature-center-phantom-prairie-mar74-200x114.jpg)
Centennial History Series: Early Prairie Restoration in the Forest Preserves of Cook County
![people dancing on a platform in the woods](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fpdcc-uic-dancing-platform-FPDCC_00_06_0013_0160-200x114.jpg)
Did You Know? Dancing Platforms Were Once Common in the Forest Preserves.
![Scientists at Site A Commemorative Boulder](https://fpdcc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/red-gate-woods-site-a-commemoration-200x114.jpg)