New $14.5M Farm Purchase Raises Eyebrows

Cook County Forest Preserve Acquisition Largest in 45 years


The Cook County Forest Preserve District makes its biggest land purchase in nearly 50 years snapping up a foreclosed 400 acre horse farm in Barrington Hills.  We look at how the Forest Preserve was able to afford the $14.5 million property and what it might become. See photo gallery below. 

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