I played Prospect this past Friday, and I can attest to Tim's very positive review. Paying $41 on a Friday afternoon as a non-resident, I feel it now belongs among the best values in Chicagoland, especially given its relatively central location in the near northwest burbs. They are also currently doing 10 minute intervals on tee times, which is really rare for a muni around here.
Tim highlights a couple of the par 3s in his article, and those are certainly worthy of highlighting as I found them very diverse in nature. Number 4 is an exhilarating long par 3 with ample space to run it up (and ample space to wildly miss the green). It's now one of the better long par 3's in the area (public) in my opinion, on par with Ravisloe #11. Number 10, which is a brand new hole, is a really nice contrast to that, a chip shot to a relatively small target. The undulating green on #7 was tremendous fun and very fair for the length of the hole. My partner and I were both on the green in one, had totally different looks at birdie, and both of us managed to three-putt. A four-putt was not off the table if the course weren't a little damp. I really appreciate a course where I use a different club on all the par 3s, and this course gets bonus points for having me pull out 5 different clubs on five one-shotters.
The course is no longer claustrophobic at all with the massive tree removal that happened, and there are really only a couple places where you could legitimately lose a ball. I noticed the tree temoval most on the very first hole, which is now a very stout par 5 with some risk-reward elements. I also really appreciated the two par 4 and a half holes on the back, a nice contrast to the two 450+ yard par 4s on the front. A lot of places to bomb it off the tee, offset by a lot of spots to use strategery.
A lot of pictures and other stuff is at this link. If anyone wants to see the place, I would highly recommend it.
http://www.mppd.org/golf/golf-course-renovation