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Kane County Board lets bike path roll on
Apr 12, 1989
Richard Roeper
Chicago Sun-Times
Pertains to Fox River Trail, St. Charles, Wayne, Geneva
A group of St. Charles Township homeowners suffered a setback Tuesday in their fight to keep their backyards from becoming part of a public bicycle path.

The Kane County Board of Commissioners failed to come up with enough votes to prohibit the Kane County Forest Preserve District from acquiring the property without consent of the owners.

"A small body of good old boys have decided that they know better than the community itself knows," said Denny Grim of Stop Taking Our Property, representing the property owners and sympathizers. "It's a blatant misuse of the power they've been given. It's ...

   
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