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Crabtree Nature Center is home to over 1000 acres of wetlands, prairies and forests in suburban Chicago. It's a critically important natural and historical preserve, as all of the Chicago area once looked like this, while the modern landscape is vastly different.
A small oasis on the edge of the northwest Chicago suburbs. This place includes a couple short trails, and a lake with a scaffold nesting platform for hundreds of cormorants and egrets.
My kind of town - Chicago is... a puncture of glass and steel rising from the long shores of Lake Michigan.
These state parks in north central Illinois preserve and showcase the dramatic bluffs above the Illinois River, along with some of the original natural beauty of the Illinois landscape as it was before being plowed and concreted over.