Do you want to visit a place that might permanently wreck your ability to enjoy regular parks with their picnic tables and playgrounds? 🦅 Lake Renwick Preserve – Heron Rookery Nature Preserve in Plainfield offers that exact experience—a weekend escape so focused on actual nature that everything else starts feeling like a tourist trap. This former gravel quarry evolved into one of Illinois’ most important birdwatching near Chicago locations, where hundreds of birds raise families on artificial platforms while humans […]...