OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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"Even those who know that North Clark street is the Green 

 Bay Trail and Lincoln Avenue the trail leading to the Little 

 Fort (Waukegan) do not know the vestiges of the aboriginal 

 occupants are to be found today not far from these ancient 

 thoroughfares and that monuments of the Mound Builders have 

 not quite disappeared from the neighboring countryside. 



At the present moment the forest tract beginning at the 

 borders of the Lake in the Skokie region and continuing west- 

 ward to the Desplaines River southward to Palos Park and 

 eastward to Lake Calumet and the Sand Dunes is in its primi- 

 tive state. Coinciding with this region of natural beauty are 

 works of the Mound Builders, trails village sites and reserva- 

 tions granted to individual Indians for services rendered to the 

 government. 



CARPET OF WILD FLOWERS (THATCHER PARK). 



By that it can be seen what an important role the Forest 

 Preserve District has taken from the historical aspect. It is 

 our intention that preserves shall be named for the historical 

 significance attached to the land and that all points of historical 

 interest shall be marked by a monument of some kind. 



And still we have not touched on what is considered by 

 many the most important function of forest preservation, a 



