The Cook County Forest Preserves has just added a new 68-acre parcel of land in south suburban Lynwood.

The land, purchased from the nonprofit Conservation Fund, lies along Deer Creek and was once farmland at Glenwood-Dyer Rd. and Ridge Rd.

As a preserve, it will protect the floodplain and its ecosystem from development and holds potential for restoration of wetlands associated with the creek.

The Forest Preserves of Cook County now holds more than 70,000 acres of land for the first time in its 110-year
history.