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The Forest Preserves of Cook County has broken ground on an ecological restoration project, a multiyear initiative that also will reconstruct and improve portions of its most extensive trail system.
Officials say the project is the biggest ecological restoration project ever for the preserves.
Tour the University of Chicago sites where the real drama took place in the Manhattan Project's development of the nuclear bomb.
A few years back, I decided to hike Red Gate Woods out in Chicago’s southwest suburbs...Cut into the trail-facing side of the marker were words stating that the radioactive remains of CP-1 — Chicago Pile-1, the reactor that had been built beneath Stagg Field at the University of Chicago and that produced, in 1942, the first controlled nuclear chain reaction — were buried there.
Business Insider named The Weldon Spring Site Interpretive Center as Missouri's worst tourist trap. I I actually think it's rather interesting myself.