I like normanlee's idea, and would also think a less ambitious idea of just building this over the Metra tracks would be quite cool. Re-landscape that section between 59th, 60th, Stony Island and Dorchester, with multiple layers of terraces or green roofs so that people could walk between the Plaisance and Jackson Park without even noticing the tracks.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
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