Buoyed by surveys indicating that 65 percent of voters would support the idea, the Kane County Forest Preserve District is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to place on the ballot later this year a $70 million land purchase plan.
If adopted, the plan would cost homeowners $1.70 more in taxes a month.
Kane would join counties throughout the area in working to preserve open space.
In November 1997, DuPage voters approved a referendum question allowing their Forest Preserve District to spend $75 million in taxpayers' money to buy about 2,300 acres, which was projected to raise taxes on a $200,000 home by about $21 a year.
That referendum measure approval came five years after DuPage voters narrowly approved the $17.5 million purchase of the 90-acre Mayslake Estate in Oak Brook.