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Nan Storke happily revises a sign 
in Belleau Woods. 
of protest. But the developer and 
the administrative official and the 
legislator marshal their power be- 
hind the scenes. Thus the struggle 
to preserve the environment often 
becomes unequal.” 
MEMBER GROUPS of the “Con- 
servation Coalition for Belleau 
Woods” began to issue press state- 
ments. As chairman of the DuPage 
Chapter of the Independent Voters 
of Illinois, I wrote a letter to the 
editor of one of the county pa- 
pers, saying, among other things, 
“America has become disenchanted 
with the automobile. We have seen 
the tangible results of air pollu- 
tion, and what it can do to the 
human health. We have seen what 
bull-dozers can do _ to _ forests, 
swamps and parks. We can see 
what highway engineers and poli- 
ticians have done to ruin so much 
of America that once made us 
proud.” 
MRS. STORKE and several of 
her friends constantly monitored 
the proceedings of the DuPage 
Board of Supervisors. The press 
was kept informed. One week be- 
fore the local February election, 
the board voted to oppose any road 
through the woods, but later, upon 
election, they flip-flopped and 
okayed the highway extension. 
STATE REP. Glenn Schneider, a 
freshman legislator from Naper- 
ville (who also is a high school 
teacher) was urged to sponsor leg- 
islation to repeal HB 1390. This he 
did through a new bill HB 3741: 
it sailed through the Illinois House. 
State Senator Harris Fawell, a 
Republican from the same district, 
and considered one of the best leg- 
islators in the state, sponsored the 
same bill in the Senate. It passed 
