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Thanks Campers! 

The Pilgrim Park Prairie is in its fall bloom!  It looks much better this fall--thanks to all of you who planted prairie wildflowers and removed unwanted vegetation this summer.  Birds have made nests in all the houses that our summer campers built.

Thanks also go out to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR) whose grant helped make this project a success. Read more about the grant here.

Interested in learning more??

          -  Find out how Illinois became the "Prairie State":

                              http://www.illinoishistory.gov/PrairiePages/Vol2n2HowPrairieState.pdf

                              http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/tallgrass.html