The Eugene S. Pike House is storybook perfect: a quaint, wood and stone 19th century Tudor Revival home on the edge of a forest preserve.
But its story had been one of neglect in recent decades.
The Forest Preserve District of Cook County owns the home, near 91st Street and Longwood Drive, at the southern tip of 257-acre Dan Ryan Woods. But it lacked the cash keep it in good repair — or even fix up the house when its condition slipped…