OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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TYPICAL SCENE (PALOS PARK). 



INTRODUCTION 



TO THE CITIZENSHIP OF CHICAGO AND 

 COOK COUNTY. 



Cook County's chain of Forest Preserve Districts, as yet 

 comparatively unknown to the public generally although destined 

 to become the great public playground, has a story of the county's 

 earliest history which has never been told. It is the story from 

 Nature in the role of eye-witness. 



Where mankind with its frailties has failed in the preserva- 

 tion of facts bearing on the earliest life in this region, since de- 

 veloped into such a powerful world factor, sturdy nature has 

 not failed. The story is there, truer and more beautiful than 

 ever was put upon paper. 



