In 2002, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County was granted self-autonomy in an attempt to free the board of conflicting interests that come with serving the wider county government. The dec…
In 2002, the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County was granted self-autonomy in an attempt to free the board of conflicting interests that come with serving the wider county government., making it, at the time, the only Forest Preserve District in the state to have its own board of commissioners and elections.
The Village of Oak Brook has been a hotbed of conflict with the Forest Preserve District over the last couple of years; in 2020 the districtnear the Graue Mill and Museum, a National Historic Landmark of the Forest Preserve restored to operating conditions in 1934. “I personally believe too many large trees were taken out,” Linda Painter, a commissioner on the forest preserve board, said in an interview. According to Painter, what and how many trees to remove was made by the Forest Preserve’s Department of Natural Resources.
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