The Cook County Forest Preserves has the land where the World's First Nuclear Reactor was rebuilt during World War II. During the war there was an enormous effort to develop the first Atomic Bomb before the Nazi's or Imperial Japan.
The government was sloppy about disposing of the site, and buried a lot of material. There was quite a bit of radiation.
My brother, father and I went to the site when I was about 12. We wandered around the site, and found an old metal building that had some weird, very light soil. My brother and I climbed the soil pile in the building and slid down the hill. Probably not the smartest thing we ever did but we did not
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