St.James Farm Forest Preserve

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St. James Farm was the retreat of the McCormick family, descendants of Cyrus McCormick, who invented the first commercially successful mechanical reaper and was co-founder of what would become the International Harvester Corporation. Home to an assortment of farm buildings, equestrian structures, and agricultural fields, the preserve also includes acres of oak woodlands, prairies and wetlands, habitats that host hundreds of native plant species and wildlife. Springbrook Creek, a biologically-diverse creek in the north part of the preserve, has been reconfigured back to its natural state to improve water quality, control erosion, improve flood-water control, and increase wildlife habitats. St. James Farm Forest Preserve is in the center of a 4,000-acre stretch of natural areas with linking trails, which includes Danada, Herrick Lake, Warrenville Grove and Blackwell forest preserves. St. James Farm Forest Preserve is currently open only on select days. The schedule will expand, though, as amenities at the new forest preserve develop.

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