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an illustration of Native people in a canoe.

250 Years of America, Thousands of Years of Stories

Press Release: Celebrate Freedom, Culture and Community at Forest Preserves of Cook County’s 13th Annual Juneteenth Jubilee

Racial Segregation Report

February 11, 2025

Segregation in the Forest Preserves: A History Lesson

November 19, 2024

Press Release: Forest Preserves of Cook County Reaches Major Milestone: More Than 70,000 Acres

a group of tents set up in the woods in the 1920s

Did You Know? The Forest Preserves has a Long Tradition of Camping

men and women sitting in a field of flowers around 1900

Centennial History Series: Who Put the “Forest” in the Forest Preserves?

Left: Dwight H. Perkins II, Middle: Dwight Perkins, Right: L. Bradford Perkins

February 6, 2015

Centennial History Series: An Interview With Dwight Perkins’ Grandsons

November 3, 2014

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

October 1, 2014

Centennial History Series: Aldo Leopold and the Forest Preserves

two people fishing in the Forest Preserves in the 1920s

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

Centennial History Series: Truck Gardens and Tent Colonies — Early Uses of the Forest Preserves

a prescribed burn at Crabtree Nature Center in 1974

Centennial History Series: Early Prairie Restoration in the Forest Preserves of Cook County

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