The crown jewel of Dan and Ada Rice's legacy in DuPage County is their former home and farm in Wheaton. On Feb. 6, 1975, Dan Rice passed away at age 78 in Miami, where he was spending the winter.

Background: Philanthropists Dan and Ada Rice in 1939 built the 19-room country mansion as part of their racehorse training estate, which became what is now the Danada Forest Preserve.

Forest Preserve District commissioner Jeff Redick said, of the $275,000 total, "approximately 200-thousand of that is in annual savings. So as you sit here and say $275,000 is a drop in the bucket ...

“There are about a dozen species of snakes that are native to DuPage County,” Forest Preserve District Commissioner Jeff Redick, District 2, said. “Generally, snakes try to avoid interaction ...