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 Trail of the Lagoons Located in Schubert's Woods on the North side of Sauk Trail Road between Western and Ashland.
I-80 East to I57. South to Sauk Trail Road
Back when the Chicago Wilderness was truly a wilderness, a great interstate highway ran across the southern edge of what is now Cook County. The Great Sauk Trail was 400 miles long — and one foot wide. For centuries before Joliet and Marquette carried their canoes across the Chicago Portage, bands of American Indians traveled it in single file, on missions of peace and war, until they had beaten a narrow path deep in the soil. The Indians and later travelers would rest or camp where the trail crossed Thorn Creek, in the midst of what was an ancient 4,000-acre forest, perched between the grasslands to the west and the marshes and dunelands to the east. A monument on the south side of Sauk Trail near the creek marks the location of the settlers’ campground. Today the old trail is the southern boundary of the 640-acre forest preserve known as Sauk Trail Woods. Interesting notes: Sauk Trail Lake was created by damming Thorn Creek for 26th Street Wampum Lake was dug to provide earth fill for the Calumet Expressway.
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