Go Touch Grass: A Lake Forest Student’s Guide to the Illinois Outdoors
Gemma Mueller ’27 Illinois is the 25th largest state in the United States with a total of 57,915 square miles. Lake County, the county where Lake Forest College is located, has a total land area of 443.6 square miles. Over 10% of the land in Lake County is a forest preserve. Many view Illinois as a bland landscape with nothing to offer but Chicago, but boy are they wrong. That 10% of protected land has…
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