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Land once acquired to expand Illinois Route 53 is to be turned over to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) to prepare to open the “greenway” for public use, after Gov. J.B. Pritzker included $1 million for the conservation project in his proposed budget. Last week in Springfield, Pritzker unveiled a $52.7 billion budget proposal, with a small fraction of the budget reserved for ...

Supporters of creating a greenway out of land acquired for the defunct Route 53 extension in Lake County are celebrating a $1 million allocation for the project in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s state budget ...

A Lake County advocacy group is working to ensure that land set aside for the now-defunct Route 53 extension is developed as a greenway sooner rather than later.

The Lake County Board on Tuesday overwhelmingly endorsed a recommendation to preserve a corridor of state-owned property from Long Grove to Grayslake as open space in what some described as the opportunity of a lifetime.

A proposal from the Waukegan Port District to buy 52 acres of forest preserve land to accommodate construction of a new airport runway is stirring up controversy in Lake County.