Following a nine-year restoration effort, the Illinois Nature Preserves Commission has designated 918 acres at the intersection of Flossmoor Road and Central Avenue as the Bobolink Meadow Land and Water Reserve.
The land is owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County and was restored by the non-profit Openlands, a conservation organization as part of the forest preserve’s Next Century Conservation Plan…Please click here to read Susan DeMar Lafferty’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.