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Summer
1998
Restored
area is Midwest's largest breeding colony of endangered
black-crowned night herons and home to prickly pear cactus,
ancient beach ridges
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Powderhorn
Marsh and Prairie is a restorative find for the city-weary.
Located in the Calumet region, straddling the city line
between Chicago and Burnham, Powderhorn is a tallgrass complex
that stands as testament to the indomitable spirit of nature.
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DIRECTIONS
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Powderhorn
is located near the Illinois/Indiana border on the
far south side of Chicago and in Burnham, off S. Brainard
Ave. From the north, take I-94, exiting at E. 130th
St. Head east to Brainard Avenue, and turn south (right).
Powderhorn will be on the left side of the street.
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Shallow
marshes and wet prairies once filled the Chicago lakeplain
behind the sand ridges and beaches along the edge of Lake
Michigan. Potawatomi canoes once glided through the vast
tallgrass prairie, savanna, wetland complex spanning roughly
22,500 acres across the Calumet region.
Then
the industrial age arrived. Railroads, heavy industry, and
neighborhoods replaced the original Calumet. Yet intermixed
with it all remains one of the Midwest's most critical stopovers
for migrating birds and one of the greatest concentrations
of threatened and endangered species in Illinois.
Who'd
expect this site to host the Midwest's |
