The District purchased a 2.5-acre landlocked wooded parcel in 2005 to expand and buffer the Village of Romeoville’s O’Hara Woods Nature Preserve on 135th Street on Lily Cache Slough. An additional 50 acres were acquired in 2008. Preservation planning is ongoing between the District, the Conservation Foundation, and the Village of Romeoville to expand the Nature Preserve westward toward other village holdings along the Slough and downstream to Plainfield.

Photograph Courtesy of Glenn P. Knoblock