[BCNnet] Tribune article re funding problems at Tri-County Park

[Randi Doeker - Chicago]

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Money running out for state prairie park 
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DuPage and state officials scramble to keep open the fledgling sanctuary in Bartlett

By John Biemer
Tribune staff reporter

June 14, 2005

The Indian and big bluestem grasses bend in the breeze. Beneath the chorus of sparrows and
red-winged blackbirds is the dull drumming of a woodpecker. A nest of great blue herons overlooks a
marsh created by a beaver dam.

Tri-County State Park in Bartlett offers a placid setting in a sea of suburbia, but now there's
also an air of uncertainty. Funding to operate the park, one of the closest state parks to downtown
Chicago, could run out by the end of the summer.


For the entire article, go to:  

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west




Randi Doeker
Chicago
Cook Co.
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