New hopes and new ideas for Fort de Chartres

Sunday, February 15, 2009

I may be one of the few Southeast Missourians who was saddened and concerned when, several weeks ago, then-governor Rod Blagojevich announced he was closing several state parks in Illinois to help balance the severely out-of-whack state budget. One of those state parks is Fort de Chartres State Park in Randolph County, just up the road a bit from Chester.

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