State Shuts Down Parks and Historic Sites Tomorrow
Photo by Lost in Scotland
At close of business hours tomorrow, several state parks and historic sites around Illinois will be shut due to the state's deep $2 billion budget hole. This irks us to no end. The closure hits 18 sites in all and they are:
- Castle Rock State Park, Oregon
- Lowden State Park, Oregon
- Illini State Park, Marseilles
- Hidden Springs State Forrest, Strasburg
- Moraine View State Park, Leroy
- Weldon Springs State Park, Clinton
- Wolf Creek State Park, Windsor
- Dana-Thomas House, Springfield
- Lincoln log cabin near Charleston
- Fort de Chartres, Randolph County
- Vandalia statehouse (Saturday is last day; not open Sundays)
- State center at Bishop Hill, Henry County
- Carl Sandburg birthplace, Galesburg
- Cahokia courthouse
- Hauberg Indian Museum, Rock Island County, (part of the Black Hawk State Historic Site) but the adjacent natural area will stay open.
- Jubilee College, near Peoria
- Apple River Fort, Elizabeth
- Fort Kaskaskia, Randolph County
- Pierre Menard home, Randolph County
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