To the east of the Cook County Forest Preserves are the City of Chicago and Lake County, Indiana.
To the south is Will County.
And to the west are Will, DuPage and Kane Counties.
These counties, the City of Chicago and 126 suburbs prohibit or severely restrict the drinking of alcohol on their streets and in their parks and forest preserves.
Beer drinkers are unwelcome in forest preserves in other counties and in city parks or on city streets.
If someone is caught drinking, he or she is subject to arrest.
Cook County Forest Preserves are just that, forest preserves, not taverns where drinkers rejected elsewhere can come to drink, get drunk, litter, drive away drunk, cause problems, vandalize and intimidate those who want to enjoy our preserves.
Suggestions to solve this problem are:
– Ban alcohol completely.
– Allow alcohol by permit only with a picnic.
– Establish specified drinking preserves.
– Allow only with a picnic in a picnic grove.
The drinking of alcohol in the Cook County Forest Preserves is out of control.
Please give the Cook County Forest Preserves back to the citizens, free of the intimidation by drinkers, by putting controls on the use of alcohol.
