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Raising friends for the Foundation

April 28, 2017October 23, 2017 by Cassandra West Comment is Closed

Board member John Atkinson hosted a Friendraiser breakfast at Willis Tower on April 27 to introduce business and civic leaders to the Foundation. Board members, county commissioners Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Debra Shore and Brookfield Zoo President and CEO Stuart Strahl were among those attending. Tom Livingston, board chair and […]

Meet the Foundation’s new board members

April 19, 2017August 3, 2017 by Forest Preserves of Cook County Comment is Closed

Claire Williams CLAIRE WILLIAMS ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN INTERNATIONAL Claire is president and chief operating officer for Environmental Design International (EDI). She joined the firm as a marketing and sales representative in 1996, following a career in the health care industry.  She served as senior vice president of business strategy until early 2015. She leads a firm […]

Spears Woods Leadership Corps members learn, train for a lifetime

February 14, 2017June 19, 2017 by Cassandra West Comment is Closed

In the dead of winter, when it’s bone-chilling cold, the ground is frozen and wildlife are burrowed away, that’s when restoration crews are hard at work deep in the Forest Preserves of Cook County. On a recent morning in Spears Woods, a five-person Forest Preserve Leadership Corps crew took turns tossing freshly cut armloads of brush […]

Forest Preserve volunteers give —and recieve

December 19, 2016June 19, 2017 by Cassandra West Comment is Closed

     An appreciation for nature led Margaret Tobin of Palos Hills to volunteer in the forest preserves. For Dennis Kankowske, it was “seeing people working in the woods.” After he inquired and found out what they were doing, he was hooked. Tobin and Kankowske are two of the preserves’ top volunteers, amassing hundreds of […]

Foundation, Allstate support 2016 Conservation Corps crew

July 2, 2016June 19, 2017 by Cassandra West Comment is Closed

A member of the Conservation Corps crew assigned to the Ted Stone Preserve. Alexa Molina, a Curie Metro High School senior, is spending six weeks of her summer mulching trails, removing invasive buckthorns and securing logs to create a check dam that will control water runoff in the Ted Stone Forest Preserve. Before she started […]

Wild Indigo gives two families a first-time camping experience

June 26, 2016June 19, 2017 by Cassandra West Comment is Closed

After everyone set up their tents for the night, there was still plenty of daylight left for tossing a Frisbee across the grassy field, squealing with delight at a peppered moth–or fear over the daddy long-legs–and getting a big pot of chili ready for dinner. It was a perfect day for enjoying everything the Forest […]

A memorial for a mother who loved spending time in Forest Preserve

June 3, 2016August 3, 2017 by Cassandra West Comment is Closed

When she was a child, Pet Smith’s mother took her on many walks through the Deer Grove Forest Preserve in Palatine. “She loved the area,” says Smith, remembering her late mother Vietta Mickus, who lived in Palatine all of her life. “It was her back yard. She knew it like the back of her hand.” A homemaker […]

Chicago Teens Enjoy their First Camping Experience

October 3, 2015November 22, 2017 by Foundation staff Comment is Closed

Mujeres Latinas en Accion’s Proyecto Juventud teen youth program participated in its first program-wide overnight camping trip at Camp Sullivan in Oak Forest this summer. Supported by Forest Preserve Foundation grants, 49 teens and their mentors experienced the joys (and hardships) of camping, many for their first time – 78 percent of the teens had […]

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