i never once said i barely use it. again, please quote wherever that statement was made. youre pretty good at fabricating things. i golf in jackson park 10 or more times a year. i go to the japanese garden about as often. i have friends who live in the area and picnic there frequently. of course none of this matters, except you keep pushing the issue.
last i checked it is a CHICAGO park, and there is not a wall around woodlawn or montrose harbor or anywhere else that prohibits city residents who happen to live a few miles away from having a say in its ideal use. |
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You still sound like an entitled prick because you mention race going to a house music fest as if it matters one bit what race you are and somehow it meant anything of importance. If you really think that my opinion on the fact that I think the Obama Library going into Jackson Park is perfectly valid is more divisive to the city than someone bringing up race when it's a moot point then I don't know what to tell you. It's not about you expressing your POV - it's about how you do it, and no I'm not going to apologize for calling you a prick. My opinion still stands. |
hey, now we're getting somewhere! now ill just patiently wait for an apology on the childish name calling for simply and earnestly expressing my POV.
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Some areas of Jackson Park are underutilized and are in desperate need of TLC. It will be great to see the structures and fixtures dating back to the World's Fair restored to their original condition. The OPL will also encourage Metra to run more frequently. As a SE sider that commutes to the Loop via ME, this will be a dream come true. I, for one, prefer this location.
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cool, im done here. enjoy the party.
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^Ha... must be on his way to one of his 20 visits a year to Jackson Park from Edgewater...
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You guys are taking it too far the guy (Via_Chicago) simply said he wished it wasn't in the park which, if there were other viable options, I think most could agree with. He could be a white guy from Canada or a green guy from Mars and be well within his right to express that opinion. At the end of the day he nor I nor anyone here (mostly) are decision makers and likely don't have vested interest in those neighborhoods, so our opinions are just that.....opinions.
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Museums in parks are generally wonderful. Where is FOTPL on this?
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Friends of the Parks Executive Director Juanita irizarry in a July interview with DNAInfo, a piece which also has some very interesting observations about the Lucas Museum site:
We have been in conversation with the Obama library folks and expect that conversation will pick up any day as it's continued over the last few months. We said we will not sue over the Obama library, but we will continue to say it should not be built in a park. . . . It was decided by the board before I came on board that even though we think it's a really big problem, there were so many folks on the South Side who articulated an interest in having the library, regardless of it taking parkland, that we decided to back off on the threat of suing. If it's located in Jackson Park it's still located on public trust land potentially,* so it does bring up some questions, but we have been talking about promoting the addition of new park land in return, and we hope that those conversations are fruitful. *The site described by the Tribune, west of Cornell, is not public trust land. |
^What's interesting about that statement is that FotPL is under the impression that it IS or MIGHT BE Public Trust Land, but are apparently willing to compromise their principles in deference to public opinion.
Why didn't they do that with the LMNA? It clearly had the support of the majority of the city including the head of just about every other museum in the city... Again, just more evidence that FotPL's number one priority isn't the parks, but rather politics... |
^good point, and, LMNA was proposed for a parking lot rather then an Olmsted designed park... go figure
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Of course, many of the progressives I talked to seemed to think this was usable park space, instead of a Bears parking lot... several people moderated their opposition after I showed them the Google map. Really this area of the lakefront is only used by Bears fans and South Siders, so it's kind of an unknown for a lot of Chicagoans which allowed FOTP to control the public opinion to an extent. At the Obama Library, you have the opposite situation. Minority groups generally don't have a dogmatic opinion to preserve parkland at any cost - Dyett High School and countless other CPS facilities across the South/West Sides were built in parks because the land was free (to CPS) and neighborhood residents valued education more than the sanctity of green space. Minority groups also place the Obama Library and honoring Obama's accomplishments at a very high priority, also higher than the sanctity of green space. Meanwhile, white North Siders are generally in favor of the Library but don't really care one way or the other about green space that they never visit. FOTP knows this is a losing battle because they don't have anybody lined up in support. |
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.....Anyway, great the city is getting the library but I'm not gonna lie in that I'm really disappointed at the choice of the site. I think it is a rather short sighted and a pretty large missed opportunity. I just don't imagine the surrounding neighborhood getting the same lift nor having the exciting potential of transformation of the Washington Park site. Also I was hoping that the Obama's would have the respect and modesty to not build the actual structure within actual present park space. That would have still been possible on the Washington Park site but is an impossibility on the Jackson Park site. Oh well. |
is it going where the golf course is?
the CUBS built there new spring training stadium where a old golf course was..... |
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