Kickapoo State Park is a 2,842 Acre Recreational Area with complete with campgrounds, hiking trails, canoeing and some of the best hunting and fishing in the area. Kickapoo is also 4 miles from the Middlefork Woods Nature Preserve, the only known Illinois location of the Silvery Salamander. Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) of Illinois will be closing Kickapoo and the surrounding area effective November 1st 2008. This petition is to keep Kickapoo State Park open.
Kickapoo State Park is a 2,842 Acre Recreational Area with complete with campgrounds, hiking trails, canoeing and some of the best hunting and fishing in the area. Kickapoo is also 4 miles from the Middlefork Woods Nature Preserve, the only known Illinois location of the Silvery Salamander. Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) of Illinois will be closing Kickapoo and the surrounding area effective November 1st 2008. This petition is to keep Kickapoo State Park open.
We, the undersigned, would like you to re-consider the current plan of closing Kickapoo State Park. We feel strongly that the park is an important asset not only to the surrounding area, but to the entire State of Illinois. We urge you to explore funding alternatives that would allow the park to stay open. Thank You for your time.
We signed the "SAVE KICKAPOO STATE PARK !!!" petition!
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12:14 pm PDT, Oct 25,Eu jin Ko, Illinois
I hope we could save the park!!!
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10:38 am PDT, Oct 24,Jessie Lynn, Illinois
not cool :(
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10:17 am PDT, Oct 24,Abigail Manaster, Illinois
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9:59 am PDT, Oct 24,Eli Imlay, Illinois
NO CLOSING THE STATE PARKS!!! we love them.
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9:43 pm PDT, Oct 23,Sam Imlay, Illinois
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7:50 pm PDT, Oct 23,Leah Imlay, Illinois
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3:16 pm PDT, Oct 23,Karin Imlay, Illinois
Please do not close our downstate parks! We use them.
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11:59 am PDT, Oct 23,Kristiina Kajaste, Estonia
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3:56 pm PDT, Oct 21,Pamela Reid, Illinois
My husband and I go to Kickapoo almost every weekend to mountain bike. There are no other parks with decent mountain bike trails less than a 2 hr drive each way from where we live. You will be taking away the sport that we enjoy together. It would be a travesty to close this beautiful park.
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1:43 pm PDT, Oct 21,Keni Kahoun, Illinois
Kickapoo State Park has made it into National Geographic Adventure magazine as one of the best mountain bike parks around. It is unacceptable that the governor feels the need to close one of the best state parks in IL. It sucks that the residents and many non-residents who use our parks and visit our historic sites have to suffer because of bad management. This is not right.
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8:08 am PDT, Oct 21,Ana Toala, Florida
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2:40 am PDT, Oct 21,Mike Nisen, California
Recently visited the area. A beautiful spot. I urge you to reconsider. The park should be left for furture generations to enjoy forever.
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7:07 am PDT, Oct 20,Donna Moretz, Florida
Would love to keep these natural parks for our future generations
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8:16 pm PDT, Oct 19,Randall Hermanson, Illinois
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6:08 pm PDT, Oct 19,Michael Donovan, Illinois
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6:03 pm PDT, Oct 19,Savannah Hampson, Illinois
There are other ways to make budget cuts; please, consider them...
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2:51 pm PDT, Oct 19,Earl Francis, Florida
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9:09 am PDT, Oct 19,William Armstrong, Louisiana
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5:56 am PDT, Oct 19,Name not displayed, Florida
You want to close this beautfil park? Are you kidding me? Why doesn't the governor look at how he wastes, I mean spends tax dollars first? There has to be other ways to save money. There must be wasteful programs or programs where the funds are not being allocated as they should. Or go to the federal government for assistance. This park must remain open.
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4:59 am PDT, Oct 19,Joshua Craig, Illinois
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3:40 pm PDT, Oct 18,MIKE HAR, Florida
INSTEAD OF USING TAXPAYERS MONEY FOR A PRIVATE JET TAKE THE BUS!!!
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1:26 pm PDT, Oct 18,April Armstrong, Louisiana
I grew up in Oakwood and spent many happy hours in this park. That the governor wants to close it is beyond belief to me. Our kids need places to enjoy nature and outdoor recreation. Cut something else!
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1:23 pm PDT, Oct 18,Jeff Nisen, Indiana
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12:10 pm PDT, Oct 18,Karen Wernert, Florida
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6:54 am PDT, Oct 18,DOREEN HOLFORD, Illinois
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9:12 pm PDT, Oct 17,Chris Siebeneck, Illinois
My friends and family nature, and this park has been like another member of the family, sharing in all the good times with one another. You wouldn't destroy a great friendship for a new cul de sac, so why destroy nature for the same reason?
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8:47 pm PDT, Oct 17,Amelia Dalton, Illinois
My kids are almost old enough to go hiking at Kikapoo but if it closes they will never get to experiance one of the places I enjoy hiking in.
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6:50 pm PDT, Oct 17,Linda Ogle, Illinois
Please save Kickapoo State Park. If Governor Blagojevich takes our parks away from us, let's take his jet away from him!!! See how he likes that!!
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4:18 pm PDT, Oct 17,Shaina Terpstra, Illinois
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3:33 pm PDT, Oct 17,Mike McPheeters, Illinois
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9:47 am PDT, Oct 17,Name not displayed, Illinois
For all of us who enjoy the natural elements, I can't imagine Kickapoo being closed. If it does then that means for me, Indiana would get my money -- I feel the next best area is Turkey Run. So our Lawmakers want our monies going to another state? Illinois lawmakers make me wish I would have NOT moved here. They are only out for themselves and not the people
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6:05 am PDT, Oct 17,Alicia Russell, New York
With the amount of natural resources that our country and planet are facing, I find it apalling that there is any consideration of closing what little land we have left! Please save the hundreds of animals and plants that are depending on this land being preserved!
