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Who Created The Cook County Forest Preserves?
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:11:49
Publish Date: 2020-05-03 03:30:00
Description:

Around the turn of the century, the great American wilderness was disappearing. That’s when an architect named Dwight Perkins devised an ambitious plan to save Chicagoland’s natural treasures — by creating the state’s first forest preserves. . Over the next 15 years, Perkins would weather legal battles and partisan squabbling in pursuit of his vision.
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