CHICAGO | Lincoln Yards

[Mr Downtown]

Originally Posted by ardecila

closing "Lincoln Yards Park" for a private event is [no] different than the Park District closing Grant Park for Lollapalooza.

It's not so much infrequent temporary closures as it is overly restrictive "codes of conduct" that private entities put on their "open space."

Can you fly a kite there? Can you protest there? If kids—or guys in their 20s—are having a friendly snowball fight, will security quickly break it up? Can you take photos there? (That's the first thing I was threatened with arrest for at the British Int'l School).

The Riverwalk, by the way, is a city facility, managed by CDOT. Apparently all the downtown building open space impact fees have for years been going into that rather than creating new parks in the South Loop, West Loop, and River North.