The preserve is geologically significant, featuring glacier-carved rock ridges, ravines and wetland potholes, which are not found anywhere else in the county. Route 66 history: Frank T.The trail system in Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve makes a loop around the entire park.Route 66 Song Of The Week anniversary edition: Teri Thornton Sings Open Highway.Route 66 news: Chicago’s Adams Street Bridge to be closed 13 months for repairs.Route 66 update: We’re in the news! (Well, kind of …).Route 66 events: Chicago talk April 19th on public art along Route 66.Route 66 events reminder: April 19th public art slideshow and lecture at Chicago Cultural Center.Route 66 news: 2016 Illinois events calendar and trip advice.Route 66 news flash: The Berghoff will be sold - but it’s staying in the family.Route 66 events calendar for Illinois: already, there’s an update!.Route 66 people: Lou Mitchell’s Heleen Thanas remembered.Lisasiegener on Route 66 mileposts: little Can…īrody Berwyn on Route 66 Song Of The Week:… He, too, is a member of the Illinois Geographical Society and has been known to organize field trips for the IGS. Keith Yearman is a geographer, foodie, techie, web geek, assistant professor of geography at the College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL, and co-author of The Curious Traveler's Guide to Route 66 in Metro Chicago. He's also a member of the Illinois Geographical Society and has been known to show up for lectures at Fermilab and organize field trips for the IGS. Kubal is a geographer, data analyst, researcher, amateur historian, foodie, astronomy and science geek, sci-fi fan, and co-author of The Curious Traveler's Guide to Route 66 in Metro Chicago. She is an author, independent journalist, policy analyst, foodie, webdiva, Lindyhopper, and occasional swing DJ who also loves astronomy, particle physics, sci-fi, and a nice glass of wine at the end of the day. Traska is the main writer, editor and blogger for the upcoming book The Curious Traveler's Guide to Route 66 in Metro Chicago. WELL, we couldn’t have that, now could we? When we asked about that creek, we found out that nobody knew its name. Patrick Cemetery on the outskirts of Argonne Lab. The creek that has the natural falls – and a cascade, too - is way over in the southwest corner of the preserve, east of Lemont Road and just off Bluff Road as that street wends its way northeast toward St. That’s not the one we mean, but it’s the one everyone thinks the preserve is named after (wrong again more on that a little later). And it had the only natural waterfall in all of DuPage County.Īctually, during the Great Depression, FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps created a manmade waterfall on Sawmill Creek on the east side of what is now Waterfall Glen. Of course, the feds didn’t give back all that land to the county until the mid-1970s, but part of that land had been a preserve long before Argonne was built after World War II. That means Route 66 passed it on the north side. Waterfall Glen is the one that wraps completely around Argonne National Laboratory near Darien. Now, Canyon Creek, its east and west branches and its cascade and waterfall can be known to all.īack in early 2013, we were doing research on Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve in DuPage County, and we discovered a mystery. Board of Geographic Names for accepting our proposed names. ![]() We’re grateful to both papers for the coverage, but really, our thanks go to the U.S. This time, the Chicago Tribune’s Suburban Trib west suburban bureau caught up over the July 4th weekend, thanks to freelancer Joan Cary. The Darien area Suburban Life newspaper’s Danny Ciamprone was the first to cover the story, back in May. Let’s hear it for natural waterfalls and cascades! For that matter, a big shout-out to Wilderness and Mother Nature. But the one about charming little Canyon Creek – ? Who knew that there were so many people out there who cared about the fate of a previously nameless little rivulet that was no longer a name-orphan? WOW. Hello again, fellow roadies! Okay, so we weren’t surprised that our posts about the Hancock building’s TILT experience or the Sears Tower’s Ledge were so popular, given that those tourist sights are plenty popular on their own.
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