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Chicago to Waste Millions on Park Plan
Toronto :: Canada | 4 days ago
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Chicago residents will recall that in the dead of night in the Summer of 2003 Mayor Daley sent bulldozers onto Northerly Island to destroy the Meigs Field airport runways so that he could reclaim the property as another one of his vaunted park space projects.
Tags: Northerly Island Chicago, Daley, Chicago Park District, waste millions, Canada, Toronto, Chicago, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Grant Park, DePaul University alumni, Cook County Illinois, Meigs Field, Northerly Island
Northerly Island, Grant Park have big changes in store
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility They are two of the most contested pieces of ground on Chicago's lakefront -- the first, where the Chicago Children's Museum wants to build its controversial kiddie bunker; the second, where Mayor Richard M. Daley executed his infamous "midnight raid"...
Tags: Chicago Park District, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Daley Bicentennial Plaza, play area, landscape architect, Northerly Island, Friends of Meigs Field, granted park, Chicago, Grant Park, Millennium Park, Richard M. Daley, Cook County Illinois, Meigs Field
Bennett hired to advise village on development, TIF district
Kankakee :: IL :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Grant Park has hired Jeff Bennett of Bennett Commercial of Kankakee to serve as an economic development and tax increment financing district adviser. Established in January of 2007, the TIF district includes nearly 90 percent of the village. It also includes...
Tags: TIF, Grant Park, Kankakee, Public finance, Deficit, Economic policy, Business Finance, Taxation, Government, Tax increment financing
$4.2 mil. sought for Grant Park design
Cook :: NE :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Chicago Park District officials will ask the park board today to greenlight a $4.2 million design of a 25-acre expanse east of Millennium Park to Lake Shore Drive, said Gia Biagi, the district's planning and development director.
Tags: grant park, Cook, Biagi, Chicago Park District, Green roof, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Millennium Park
Grant Park officials try to balance the numbers
Kankakee :: IL :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility For now Grant Park village officials have a financal plan that appears to be limited to controlling spending and recouping unpaid bills. And despite taking on two loans that total almost a third of the village's budget, officials keep saying that taxpayers...
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Grant Park barn fire draws multiple fire departments
Beecher :: MI :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Firefighters from across the region currently are battling a blaze at a rural Grant Park barn near the Indiana state line...Assistance was requested of Beecher, Momence, Aroma Park, Peotone, Crete Township and Kankakee city fire staff, to name some of...
Tags: grant park
Report: Children's Museum move to Grant Park in jeopardy
Illinois :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The Chicago Children's Museum's controversial plan to relocate to Grant Park appears to be in jeopardy, Crain's Chicago Business is reporting. The museum, however, has issued a statement denying the story. Here's an excerpt from the Crain's story , written...
Tags: grant park
BMX Open in Grant Park Friday
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility With tricks that require dropping from towers, flying high and inventing intricate choreography in the air, the events taking place at this weekend's Nike 6.0 BMX Open easily could be confused with routines from Cirque du Soleil. The Dew Tour begins the...
Tags: BMX, Grant Park, Chicago, dew tour, bmx open, bmx park
Can't-miss tips for Taste of Chicago 2009
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Times, dates: The Taste of Chicago runs Friday through July 5 in Grant Park , along Columbus Drive between Monroe and Balbo Drives. Hours are 11 a.m.-9 p.m. every day except July 5, which closes at 6 p.m...Buying tickets: June 25 is the last day to buy...
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Bicyclist struck by taxi near Grant Park
Illinois :: IL :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility A bicyclist was badly hurt after being struck by a taxicab Tuesday night outside Grant Park. The damaged taxicab following its collision with the bicyclist. (Tribune / Jeremy Gorner) The victim, a man believed to be in his 40s, was reported in critical...
Tags: David Banks, grant park
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