Forest preserve site to host voyage into past.

Publication: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

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Byline: Stanley Ziemba

Sep. 28--Visitors to Columbia Woods near Willow Springs will be transported more than 200 years back in time over the weekend with the re-creation of the 18th Century French fur trade era along the Des Plaines River.

The setting for the history lesson is "A River Thru History, the Des Plaines Valley Rendezvous," sponsored by the Cook County Forest Preserve District and the I&M Canal National Heritage Corridor Civic Center Authority in cooperation with the Canal Corridor Association....

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