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Public asked to help reinvent Grant Park
PUBLIC HEARINGS | 'We're at the starting line,' but this is 'like a marathon'
May 24, 2010
BY LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporter
A fund-raising slowdown put the brakes, for now, on a new Chicago Children's Museum in the northeast end of Grant Park, but that isn't stopping plans to remodel the site.
Starting today, the Chicago Park District is holding a series of public meetings so residents can have some say -- and pose questions -- about what's happening in the city's front yard.
At least one park advocate agrees it's time to reinvent the 25-acre green space east of Millennium Park, particularly since a portion of it will be torn up to plug leaks in an underground garage there.
"That could be an amazing connection from Millennium Park to the lake that balances local community needs and the global status of Grant Park," said Bob O'Neill, president of the Grant Park Conservancy.
His big push at the meetings will be to salvage the mature trees that dot the area -- bounded roughly by Columbus on the west, Lake Shore Drive on the east, Randolph Street on the north and Monroe Street on the south.
While no pen has been put to paper, no price tag or completion deadline set, park planners say they hope the public meetings will give the remodeling project some shape...............
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The Chicago Park District is hosting public meetings on the future of Grant Park's north end. All are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.:
• • Today, at Spertus Institute, 610 S. Michigan
• • Wednesday, at South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore
• • June 9, at Broadway Armory, 5917 N. Broadway
• • June 10, at Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park
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