CHICAGO — Cook County Forest Preserves has used a $40 million yearly windfall from voters to buy up and conserve more land, pay for maintenance and add programming while bolstering its pension funds, ...

Striking Cook County Forest Preserve maintenance, conservation and programming workers reached a deal with management Wednesday, ending a more than two week walkout just before the busy Labor Day ...

Approximately 200 union workers at the Forest Preserve District of Cook County went on strike on Monday, after rejecting a contract proposal they said doesn't provide sufficient pay raises. Truck ...

The Illinois Department of Transportation, ComEd and other agencies are implementing practices along rights of way that help ...

National Public Lands Day gives Chicagoland families a reason to discover just how much adventure, nature and family fun is waiting across the Forest Preserves of Cook County. Reading, photography, ...

We know that taking a walk is a healthy thing to do. But what if we learned that this walk is even healthier when it happens in a green space? Researchers at Northwestern University ran a study in the ...

Ricky Gervais calls for release of Rocky the coyote from River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook Celebrity Ricky Gervais has called for Cook County officials to release Rocky, a coyote confined at the ...

The Forest Preserves of Cook County manages 70,000 acres of land that serve as habitats for wild animals, and places of recreation for residents. It also prevents land from being turned into parking ...