Joseph Kubal, who is a member of ESCONI, was featured in the newspaper last week for his work in getting a Dupage county waterfall named:
via MySuburbanLife:
...Tucked away in the dense foliage of Waterfall Glen is a man-made wonder few guests, even locals, know about.
But in the Darien and Lemont area forest preserve, nature's own handiwork is even more obscure.
"This one is pretty hard to find," said Joe Kubal, as he traversed the preserve's muddy path. "The natural one is not very well known."
The Naperville resident led the way to the only naturally-made waterfall in DuPage County, one that just a year ago was such a mystery it didn't have an official name....
... etting the naming rights to the waterfall was just part of a larger project Kubal and his colleagues, independent journalist Maria Traska of Oak Lawn and College of DuPage geography professor Keith Yearman, embarked on three years ago.
The trio's book is called "The Curious Traveler's Guide to Route 66 in Metro Chicago," and they are almost done with the manuscript. Traska said it won't be a travel book, but rather a biography of the eastern terminus of U.S. Route 66, as told by the buildings and points of interest there in 1926, and the people still around to tell their part of the story.
Click here to learn the name and more about the geology