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Perkins Vindicates the Forest Preserves
As the suit worked its way through the Illinois legal system, one Chicago Tribune journalist wrote that citizens would have to wait before they could spend “a good many July and August days wandering through the big woods, rowing on the Des Plaines river, and picking wild flowers in the glacial meadows and hills of the Sag region.”
Finally in 1916, in Perkins v. Board of County Commissioners, the Illinois Supreme Court approved the new district, holding that the new law overcame equal protection concerns and that the district did, indeed, have the right to issue bonds.