From Ward 42 Weekly Updates --

Recent Press Coverage on the Chicago Children's Museum's Attempt to Move to Grant Park

Museum clears 1st hurdle on move into Grant Park
Chicago Tribune - May 16, 2008
"The [Chicago Plan Commission], handpicked by museum backer Mayor Richard Daley, voted 13-2 to recommend approval of the [Chicago Children's Museum's] plan to the City Council... Opponents said they expected the commission to approve the plan, given the politics of the situation, and vowed to lobby aldermen to defeat it-or in court if necessary."
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Commission votes 13-2 for Children's Museum
Chicago Sun-Times - May 16, 2008
"Thursday's hearing laid the groundwork for a threatened court challenge. It gave residents of high-rises surrounding the Daley Bicentennial Plaza site near Millennium Park a chance to make their case that, despite five redesigns, the project still violates 172 years of legal protections and four Supreme Court decisions that have kept Grant Park "forever open, clear and free" as Montgomery Ward sought."
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Foregone conclusion
Chicago Sun-Times - May 16, 2008
"Is it not painful to see the careful arguments, the neat little maps, the earnest, overflowing public hearings? The well-written, thoughtful editorials such as the one that ran in the Sun-Times on Tuesday, explaining exactly why putting a Children's Museum in Grant Park is a bad idea."
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