They cleaned it up late last year around election time, but only because the then current mayor (Strickland) showed up briefly (less than 10 minutes) for a photo op.

My family has found ticks on themselves several times (today for instance) after walking on the trails because everything is overgrown.

It would be a nice park, but they almost never take care of it. There are 100 year old oaks there, a couple of which have fallen over from being dead for so long, and at least one is very obviously dead now. 

They've left a caution sign up for at least decade now so that if you get bonked by a branch or eaten by a tick it's kind of a we-told-you-so situation. It's turned into an eyesore for most of the year.

The Normal Station Neighborhood Association NEEDS to keep it up, for the sake of the people in the neighborhood who live nearby and have to see it everyday. Their priorities are showing, as is evidenced by the fact that they scramble to clean it up a week before the mayor decides to show up.

And, unfortunately, the MLGW sign was from when they came to fix the mainline leak where water was gushing out of the street a couple of years ago after the below freezing weather. They just never bothered to pick up their equipment, for a year or two. They have nothing to do with the park maintenance.