The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) especially left its mark on forest preserves, parks and state lands throughout the Chicagoland area. Barbara Brotman then proceeded to take the reader on a trip to some well-preserved sites.
FULLERSBURG WOODS FOREST PRESERVE, OAK BROOK, part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. The CCC built the visitor center in 1934 using logs from trees cut down on what is today the parking lot. Even more impressive, this was done without power tools.
It was originally a boathouse. The picnic shelters are also CCC products.
WHITE PINES FOREST STATE PARK, MMT. MORRIS, is home to an extensively remodeled CCC lodge and cabins known as White Pine Inn. The entire park was developed by the Corps and consists of 385 acres in the Rock River Valley with creeks, footbridges and one of the last natural stands of white pines in Illinois and the southernmost in the US.
Still CCCing Next Entry. --Cooter
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