From the Editorial Board: In Chicago, it’s rare to find an arm of government that hums without a hitch when it comes to both its mission and its fiscal stewardship. The Cook County Forest Preserve District is one of those entities.
A white-tailed deer crosses the Des Plaines River Trail in the Catherine Chevalier Woods, a Cook County Forest Preserve District property, in Chicago.
Given how much property tax increases have battered Chicago area residents in recent years, every governmental ask for even more requires a long, hard look. In this case, however, the request is more than warranted. The respite that Cook County’s forest preserves provide from maddening traffic jams and workday stress can be easily taken for granted. But those preserves don’t maintain themselves. Pavilion shelter roofs eventually must be replaced, every so often parking lots need repaving and woodlands at some point require a degree of restoration, particularly to clear invasive brush.
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