Skokie River Nature Preserve in Lake Forest and The Preserve of Highland Park were among eight Chicago River Day venues in Lake County.
From the left, along the riverbank are volunteers Melanie O’Brien of Rogers Park and Rachel German of Highland Park at the 32nd-annual Chicago River Day cleanup location in Highland Park at The Preserve at Highland Park on May 11, 2024. The Friends of the Chicago River have been organizing the regional cleanup since 1992. The
“We see a lot of single-use plastic,” Ricketts said. “On the west side of the river here is Target, and just beyond that is 41, so there’s definitely a lot of trash that’s blowing off of our roadways and probably from people that intended to put trash in containers, but they blow out of containers. Brian Frankl of Highland Park, who volunteered at The Preserve of Highland Park spoke of being, “worried about swallowing and dying, basically. This trash is dangerous for them.”
“He’ll probably go to a driving range and they’ll get reused again,” Loshbaugh said of the golf balls. “Lawn chairs, tires, we keep cleaning it up,” he said. “This water drains into the Chicago River. This is actually the east fork of the north branch of the Chicago River, but it’s known as the Skokie River.
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