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CJB School - Orland Hills, IL

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Entrance is on the northeast corner of 147th Street and Oak Park Avenue.

Conveniently located, Camp Sullivan provides an excellent environment for fun outdoor scouting activities.  Come and play just for the day or bring your tent and plan to stay the evening.  Launch your own hand built rocket, play a game of touch football, take a hike, or just relax by the campfire.

These preserves are situated on a ridge of glacial drift known to geologists as the Tinley moraine. It was deposited by the last glacier, as it retreated from this area, on the easterly edge of the Valparaiso moraine.

The human history of the Tinley Creek Division is typical of many Chicagoland areas. "Yankees" from New England states came first. Bachelor's Grove, a large wooded area including the forest preserve north of 151st St., was occupied about 1833 by a group of single men while perfecting their titles to tracts of land purchased at $1.25 per acre. Among them was Stephen Rexford, one of the founders of Blue Island. Each man had a five-acre woodlot in the grove.

The St. Mihiel and Oak Forest area was then called Cooper's Grove, but the reason for that name is unknown. In 1848 the name of its post office was changed to New Bremen and the one at Bachelor's Grove became Bremen.

This locality was settled largely by German people. After the Rock Island Railroad was completed to Chicago in 1852, a town called Bremen was platted at what is now Tinley Park It had street names such as Kirchen Strasse and Market Platz but the principal north and south street, Oak Park Ave, was called Bachelor Grove Avenue. Tinley Park, named for three Rock Island RR men, was incorporated as such in 1892.

If tent camping is not your idea of fun, cabins are available:

CABINS: Two buildings are each divided into two sections (cabins A and B, C and D), each cabin includes ten bunk beds accommodating twenty persons. Mattresses and bedding are not furnished. Kitchen facilities and the play area/eating room are shared by the two cabins. A flush toilet and a single shower are provided with each cabin. The kitchen has a stove, refrigerator, sink with running water (hot and cold), serving counter and shelving. Kitchen utensils, dishes or silverware are not furnished. Pay telephone number for cabins A and B is 708-687-9888. Pay telephone number for cabins C and D is (708) 687-9894.

LODGE: The Lodge accommodates twenty persons. Bunk beds are provided, but mattresses and bedding are not furnished. The Lodge has Kitchen facilities and a play area/eating room. The Lodge also has one flush toilet and one shower. The kitchen has a stove, refrigerator, sink with running water (hot and cold), serving counter and shelving. Kitchen utensils, dishes or silverware are not furnished. Pay telephone number for the Lodge is 708-687-9716.

ALL CABINS HAVE ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND ARE HEATED