Good Work If You Can Get It: A New Approach To Lake Restoration Funding

A new film project will help pay for lake restoration at a Cook County, IL forest preserve.

Many scenes for the romantic drama "Il Mare," starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, will be filmed at a glass-sided house near Maple Lake, about 15 miles southwest of Chicago. In addition to the $100,000 shooting fee, Warner Bros. Pictures agreed to pay for much of the $40,000 needed to stabilize the shoreline and pay for new wetland plantings that the Cook County Forest Preserve District already had planned. The movie is scheduled for release in 2006.

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