Cook County Voters to Weigh Forest Preserves Tax Increase in Upcoming Election – WTTW (Chicago)

The Forest Preserves are a quasi separate unit of Cook County government that manages 70,000 acres of public land, along with the Brookfield Zoo and Chicago Botanic Garden. It does not have its own taxing authority and must go directly to voters instead. For the first time in nearly a century, Cook County commissioners voted to put a binding referendum on November's ballot.