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THE FOREST PRESERVES 



At the same time, the board of county commissioners and 

 the board of forest preserve commissioners fortunately being 

 one and the same, the county's unequalled system of concrete 

 highways has been laid out with a double purpose. These high- 

 ways are being built with an eye on the "greater forest" idea. 



JUNCTION OF RAND AND BALLARD ROADS, SENNE WOODS IN 

 BACKGROUND. 



It has been possible for the board to construct these won- 

 derful "country boulevards" to meet all the demands of economic 

 development of the county and to serve as connecting links for 

 this world's greatest chain of public playgrounds. On the suc- 

 cess of that we want you to judge. 



No wild stretch of imagination need be employed to visualize 

 the Forest Preserve District of a few years from now when 

 each picturesque tract will be brought to every citizen's door by 

 a network of automobile bus lines operating on these perfect 

 highways. In fact such a development is in a measure already 

 here. 



