OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 



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These mounds are found in the woods just to the north of 

 the west extension of North Avenue. Eventually this spot, 

 like all others, will be indicated by the comprehensive system 

 of signs that will guide travelers in the woods and on the 

 roads. 



Dr. Kennicott has told how the Indians, using the portage, 

 dragged their canoes past his home and across the "high road," 

 that is now the Milwaukee Avenue road, to the waters that led 

 them to the Chicago River and the Lake. He knew by name 

 practically all the savages who used the portage. 



From Irving Park boulevard to Higgins Road (Lawrence 

 Avenue extension) on the north there are truly majestic for- 

 ests that have for years been known as "Indian Reservation." 

 They constitute the tracts that went to Claude LaFramboise 

 and Alexander Robinson under the Treaty of Prairie du Chien. 



A daughter of Chief Robinson, Mrs. Mary Robinson 

 Rager, still makes her home on this ancient domain. Just west 

 of the Desplaines River road there lies the old family burying 

 ground with quaint stones marking the graves of the Chief 

 and his wife, Catherine Chevallier. 



TYPE OF COMFORT STATIONS. 



