Excerpt from Northeastern Illinois Regional Greenways Plan The northeastern illinois planning commission (nipc) Was created in 1957 by the Illinois General Assembly to be the advisory comprehensive planning agency for the six-county Chicago metropolitan area. The Northeastern Illinois Planning Act gave the Commission three charges: to conduct research and collect data for planning; to advise and assist local government; and to prepare comprehensive plans and policies to guide the development of the counties of Cook, dupage, Kane, Lake, mchenry and Will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.