No free parking?
Admission for state parks a tough sell
There are two hard-and-fast facts that would be very difficult to find anyone to argue against.
The first is that Illinois’s state parks are valuable assets that need to be preserved. The second is that Illinois is in desperate financial straits that are making it difficult for it to preserve these valuable natural resources.
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