Some Chicago beaches making a comeback after high lake levels
The Chicago Park District is encouraging plant growth and using techniques such as controlled burns to help replenish Chicago's beaches.
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The Chicago Park District is encouraging plant growth and using techniques such as controlled burns to help replenish Chicago's beaches.
(The Center Square) – About $74 million in taxpayer dollars aims to slow down the impact of erosion at Illinois Beach State Park. The project is the largest capital project in the Department of Natural Resources history. ...
Home to the last stretch of natural shoreline in Illinois, the park has been hit hard in recent years by intense winter storms and record high lake levels, with parts of the coastline having receded by as much as 100 feet in one year.
Illinois is undertaking two projects at Illinois Beach State Park it says will protect the Lake Michigan shoreline from erosion and be examples for future projects intended to reduce wave-caused
IDNR Director Colleen Callahan said the department wants to “do everything we can” to protect the beach and the native species in its ecosystem “before they both vanish forever.”