129 Lake St
Oak Park, IL 60302
United States
The Archaeology of Cook County: From the Ice Age to the Atomic Age; 12,000 years of Human History in the Cook County Forest Preserves.
On Sunday Sept. 21 at 3 p.m. at OPRF Museum, Oak Parker Tom Loebel, Ph.D. will speak about uncovering traces of the earliest Native peoples who lived in Illinois, using evidence found in the Cook County Forest Preserves.
Dr. Loebel is the Assistant Director for the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) at the Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He also serves as the Principle Investigator for the ISAS partnership with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. For over thirty years he has been conducting archaeological research in Illinois and the Midwest, with a particular interest in the early post-glacial cultures (Paleoindian and Early Archaic) of the Great Lakes and the late pre-contact cultures of the Chicago region. A native of Cook County, he spent his youth roaming the Forest Preserves and rivers of Cook County and is now proud to be part of the program that protects these valuable public resources.
September is Illinois Archaeology Awareness Month.
Regular museum admission rates will apply for this program.