Illinois DNR answers to audit, open to making parks national – Center Square

“When you're looking at over a billion dollars of deferred maintenance, I don't think we're in a position to be choosy and to be prideful and say, ‘you know, these are ours,’” said IDNR Director Natalie Phelps Finnie. “We're holding on to these if there's a better way to do it, and the federal government can come in making a national park, we're open to that conversation.”