The DuPage Forest Preserve District in Illinois has been busy acquiring property for new forest preserves.
St. James Farm offers 607 acres purchased from the McCormick family trust, the 88-year-old estate of the McCormick family. The estate was a dairy farm, later converted for horses. The property is on both sides of Butterfield Rd. at Winfield Rd. and connects Blackwell Forest Preserve and Warrenville Grove Preserves to Herrick Lake and Danada Forest Preserves. The preserve is not open to the public until certain improvements are made, but they are open for certain programs that will be posted on their website www.dupageforest.com .
The Cenacle which has served as a retreat house for the past 70 years will soon be a part of the DuPage County Forest Preserves. 41 acres of open space and woodlands with the Dupage River running through the property The Cenacle makes a perfect recreational center for Warrenville. Plans for the retreat house are not known at this time.
We look forward to the addition of these forest preserves to Warrenville IL and the surrounding areas.
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