OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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The Forest Preserves 



Their Present and Future 



BY PETER REINBERG 



PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF FOREST PRESERVE COMMISSIONERS 

 OF COOK COUNTY 



Cook County's Forest Preserve tracts, over 13,000 acres 

 which have been acquired and developed at a cost less than 

 $5,000,000 in two years' time, form a perfect chain of woodland 

 about the great city of Chicago. One day they will constitute 

 a world marvel as a public park system as well as the economic 

 life-belt of the community. 



In the acquisition of the county's available timberland the 

 board of commissioners has had that very thing in view along 

 with the general scheme of perpetuating the community's few 

 remaining specimen of primitive rugged forest land for develop- 

 ment into Cook County's "greater forest." 



