Sangamon River Forest Preserve open

FISHER – Area residents have another site where they can get back to nature now that the Champaign County Forest Preserve District has opened the Sangamon River Forest Preserve near Fisher.

The district purchased the 160-acre site earlier this year from Ron and Karen Cook after receiving two grants totaling more than $1 million from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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