What was Illinois like 300 years ago, and what wilderness remains? Learn at Coffee Talk
The Des Plaines History Center, 781 Pearson St., Des Plaines, will host a Coffee Talk at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8, on "Remnants of the Illinois W...
The Des Plaines History Center, 781 Pearson St., Des Plaines, will host a Coffee Talk at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 8, on "Remnants of the Illinois Wilderness." What was Illinois like 300 years ago when it was home to Native Americans and early European settlers and explorers? It was a wilderness of prairies, forests and wetlands, untouched since the retreat of the last ice sheet thousands of years earlier. Today, that wilderness is gone. But remnants survive, preserved today as state parks, nature preserves and wildlife refuges.