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Lake Opeka. / 42.0127°N 87.8966°W / 42.0127; -87.8966. Lake Opeka is a small, 40 acres (16 ha) lake in Des Plaines, Illinois . On the shores of Lake Opeka, Lake Park is a 60 acres (24 ha) park which offers a wide variety of outdoor recreational opportunities for all age groups, administered by the Des Plaines Park District, [2] with ...
Included within Des Plaines Fish and Wildlife Area is the 78-acre Grant Creek Prairie Nature Preserve and the 575-acre Des Plaines Dolomite Prairies Land and Water Reserve. Both contain high-quality prairie communities; the latter includes 9 acres of rare, dry-mesic dolomite prairie, constituting 50% of the remaining natural community of that ...
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County is a governmental commission in Cook County, Illinois, that owns and manages land containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes. These land holdings are primarily managed as undeveloped natural areas and for outdoor recreation. The Forest Preserve District encompasses approximately 70,000 ...
Illinois. , United States. Website. www.oakton.edu. Oakton College is a public community college with campuses in Des Plaines, Illinois and Skokie, Illinois. It was established in 1969 in Morton Grove, Illinois and moved to its current locations in 1980.
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States.It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River, on the west side of Harlem Avenue on the line of 48th Street.
Fox River Grove (FRG) is a village in Algonquin Township, McHenry County and Cuba Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States. As per 2020 census, the population was 4,702. [ 2] In 1919, the village of Fox River Grove was officially incorporated, becoming the ninth village in McHenry County. The Grove is situated along the southern shore of ...
Mallard Lake County Forest Preserve is a 949 acres (3.8 km 2) forest preserve surrounding Mallard lake, located predominantly in Bloomingdale township in northern DuPage County ( 41°57′59″N 088°07′56″W ). At 85 acres (0.3 km 2 ), Mallard lake is the largest recreational lake in the district. The preserve was started with a donation of ...
Crystal Lake: 4 Cumberland: UP-NW — Des Plaines: 3 Dee Road: UP-NW — Park Ridge: 2 Deerfield: MD-N — Deerfield: 4 Des Plaines: UP-NW — Des Plaines: 3 Downers Grove Main Street: BNSF — Downers Grove: 4 Edgebrook: MD-N — Forest Glen, Chicago: 2 Edison Park: UP-NW — Edison Park, Chicago: 2 Elburn † UP-W — Elburn: 4 Elgin: MD-W ...