scholarly journals The forest preserves of Cook County, owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County in the state of Illinois.

1918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Forest Preserves ◽  
Forest Preserve

Cleaning Streams in Cook County, IL: Forest Preserves, Water Pollution, and Interwar Environmentalism in the Chicago Region

2021 ◽  
pp. 153851322110462
Author(s):  
Natalie B. Vena
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Forest Preserves ◽  
Forest Preserve

In 1916, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County began acquiring land to create a natural retreat for Chicagoans in that booming metropolitan region. Since district officials acquired many properties along county streams, water pollution soon interfered with their mission of creating an urban wilderness for recreational pleasure. To address the problem, in 1931, county leaders appointed the Clean Streams Advisory Committee that collaborated with forest preserve staff members to pressure polluters to clean-up their operations and to persuade enforcement agencies to prosecute ongoing offenders. They also lobbied the Public Works Administration to earmark New Deal funding for sewage treatment in Cook County. Their efforts suggest that early activism against water pollution in American cities emerged not only from efforts to ensure clean drinking water, but also struggles to protect nature. The interwar campaign to clean forest preserve streams anticipated the goals of the federal Clean Water Act (1972) to make all American waterways fishable and swimmable. The movement also preceded the burst of anti-pollution activism that historians have documented in U.S. suburbs after WWII and laid the groundwork for postwar efforts to mitigate water pollution in Cook County.

scholarly journals Environmental review for Site A/Plot M, Palos Forest Preserve, Cook County, Illinois

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Biang ◽  
C.R. Yuen ◽  
H.I. Avci ◽  
R. Haffenden
Keyword(s):  
Cook County ◽  
Forest Preserve

Power to the Paperwork? Mandatory Financial Sanctions and the Bureaucratic Means to Racially Unequal Ends

2019 ◽  
pp. 000276421985962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasey Henricks
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
The State ◽  
Cook County ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
Cook County Circuit Court ◽  
The Relationship

Few studies that disentangle the relationship between race, crime, and punishment have turned to administrative documents as a central site of power. Speaking to this omission, I use a case study of mandatory financial sanctions in the Criminal Division of the Cook County Circuit Court in the State of Illinois. The analysis draws upon a sample of 89 sanctions imposed upon conviction, at the state and county levels, to identify three bureaucratic aspects that sustain racial inequality. One, these sanctions are represented in ways that abstract the conviction process from its highly racialized context. Two, these sanctions enable legal actors to enact a multilevel mode of decision making, combining compulsory and discretionary judgment, that entrenches racial bias within the broader legal organization of punishment. And three, these sanctions redistribute the operational costs of justice through earmarks onto those who are processed through the system (i.e., disproportionately people of color). Altogether, these bureaucratic aspects paradoxically intensify racial stratification in ways that are seemingly nonracial.

The Role of Naturalness in Ecological Restoration

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Evans ◽  
William P. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Cook County ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Culture Gap ◽  
Ecological Science ◽  
Forest Preserves

While ecological restoration may help bridge the nature-culture gap, restoration still holds relevant meanings for naturalness, as demonstrated in this case study of staff and volunteers in the Cook County Forest Preserves (CCFP) in Illinois, United States. Translating naturalness as an agency policy into restoration goals for sites, CCFP integrated historical evidence, ecological science, and human values. Naturalness was constructed as historical fidelity, a scientific designation to be objectively discovered, while the scales at which people interpreted historical fidelity, namely, species, communities, processes, and practices, were sites of value deliberation. The multiple renderings of naturalness can be a strength that provides flexibility to restore what is locally valued, constructing restoration projects that acknowledge, rather than attempt to overcome, the constructed nature of naturalness.

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