Visitors to the Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda will face a tangle of work along Route 176 for the next week or so in advance of a wide-ranging two-year project to improve public access and ...

A master plan detailing $5.1 million in public improvements at Lakewood was approved by the Lake County Forest Preserve in January. But getting to that point took more than 15 years. And while ...

Months after the American buffalo escaped her home at a farm in Wauconda, officials said she was successfully captured in Lakewood Forest Preserve. "We are thankful the animal has been removed ...

Forest preserve officials are working to humanely remove a bison that escaped being delivered to a farm last year. The 1,300 pound bison settled in the Lakewood Forest Preserve, near Wauconda ...

The animal, which most in the area know as "Tyson the Bison," escaped a north suburban farm late last year and was safely located Wednesday morning from the Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda.

On an unseasonably warm morning last December, with a light fog casting a Scottish Highlands mood across the Lakewood Forest Preserve, I explored rough trails on the preserve’s northwest side ...

WAUCONDA (AP) — A Civil War reenactment at a northeastern Illinois forest preserve is back on after the event was temporarily canceled by a county official over questions of its value, as well ...

Lake County Forest Preserves announced that the 1,300-pound bovine was “safely and humanely” removed from Lakewood Forest Preserve in Wauconda early Wednesday by a professional wildlife ...

The acquisition expands the Lakewood Forest Preserve, the largest in the county with more than 2,900 acres of trails, woodlands, prairies, wetlands and lakes according to a county press release.