Informational and instructional sign provided by the Niles Park District for its lightning warning system. Photographed at Kirk Lane Park, Niles, Illinois.
The text of the sign is presumptively copyrighted by the Niles Park District, a governmental subdivision of the State of Illinois. The text of the sign is a publicly viewable public record of the State of Illinois. Per Illinois public record law, publicly viewable public records of the State of Illinois may be copied for any person for any purpose, including for commercial purposes; therefore, the inclusion of the text of the sign does not create a defensible copyright interest which would preclude this image as a derived work when licensed under, inter alia, a Creative Commons license.
{{Information| |Description=Informational and instructional sign provided by the Niles Park District for its lightning warning system. Photographed at Kirk Lane Park, Niles, Illinois. |Source=own work |Date=December 17, 2006 |Author=Kelly Martin |Permiss