Condos and cottages aren’t the only victims of high lake levels and erosion. It’s also been a rough 2020 for Illinois Beach State Park, as northeast as you can get in Illinois. The park’s reopened now, but this winter took a toll.This beach is the state’s only natural shoreline — likely the most biologically diverse location in the Prairie State — and it’s getting battered hard by Lake Michigan.While other state parks quietly waited to reopen, this park’s hundreds of acres have struggled because of flooding and damage connected to erosion. Brad Semel, from Illinois Department of Natural...…Condos and cottages aren’t the only victims of high lake levels and erosion. It’s also been a rough 2020 for Illinois Beach State Park, as northeast as you can get in Illinois. The park’s reopened now, but this winter took a toll.This beach is the state’s only natural shoreline — likely the most biologically diverse location in the Prairie State — and it’s getting battered hard by Lake Michigan.While other state parks quietly waited to reopen, this park’s hundreds of acres have struggled because of flooding and damage connected to erosion. Brad Semel, from Illinois Department of Natural...WW…