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Yesterday we biked 21 miles on the Des Plaines River Trail south from Half Day Preserve, checking out the detour required to bypass the missing 1/2 mile segment in Lincolnshire. According to a source I talked to, the jerk who owns the fine Par King Golf establishment refuses to sell a corridor along the river to the forest preserve for the trail. He is apparently demanding “prime real estate value” for the land instead of “flood plain value” — and that comes after he sold a huge tract to Sedgebrook Retirement and no doubt made out very well on that sale.
We discovered that the detour is neither long nor a real burden. Turn right on Riverside where the trail ends, go a few hundred yards and turn left onto the gravel trail behind Sedgebrook. Take it to the end where you turn right onto a paved trail along the south edge of Sedgebrook, bike to Milwaukee Avenue, turn left, proceed a bit to Cubby Bear North, and resume on the DRT at the rear of their parking lot.
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