OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 103 



North Branch Chicago River 

 Preserves 



Starting with the celebrated Turnbull tract of 148 acres 

 alongside the old Green Bay Indian trail and within a half mile 

 of Lake Michigan on the north line of the county and running 

 south with the north branch of the Chicago River, the North 

 Shore preserves constitute a playground for thousands. 



The old Turnbull tract situated on the bluffs over-looking 

 the lake is heavily timbered with oak, elm, hickory and miscel- 

 laneous hardwood trees. The property has been owned by the 

 Turnbulls since 1852 and on it still stands the family homestead, 

 a landmark of the early north shore settlement. 



That territory along the banks of the north branch of the 

 river includes some of the county's most picturesque timber- 

 land, much of it bordering upon the Skokie Marsh and the 

 headwaters of the river, a much traversed zone in the days of 

 Indians and early white settlers. 



At the northernmost point there is the site of Father Binet's 

 Mission of the Guardian Angel, Chicago's first church, estab- 

 lished there in the days when the north portage made this an 

 important trading post for the Indians and the Whites. It was 

 an institution of the Jesuits that survived only a year. 



On further south there are the Badek woods, famed for 

 their wild flowers, Harms woods with their seemingly inex- 

 haustible daisy fields, Peterson woods, once the Cook County 

 home of the wild canaries, the Caldwell Indian reservation, the 

 Edgebrook Golf Course and last, the gorgeous Forest Glen. 



On the reservation there are traces of the old home of Billy 

 Caldwell, Sauganash by his Indian name, where he lived by 

 authority of a government land grant until the Indian removal 

 in 1835. He left his home to lead his countrymen westward 

 in accordance with the treaty they had signed. 



