Native prairie gets ready to take seed at Illiniwek Forest Preserve

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    “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
    One clover, and a bee.
    And revery.
    The revery alone will do,
    If bees are few.”

    That was Emily Dickinson’s advice in “To Make a Prairie,” which she penned long, long ago when wild places were in abundance.

    But as Illiniwek…

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