Forest Preserve District of Cook County: A Call for a Separate Board of Commissioners

March 17, 2008

This joint report by the Civic Federation and Friends of the Forest Preserves calls for the creation of an independent board of commissioners for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. The report finds that the current arrangement by which the Cook County Board of Commissioners also serves as the governing board for the Forest Preserve District has resulted in conflicts of interest and neglect of the preserves.