By Lynn Becker:

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Six Reasons the Chicago Children's Museum doesn't belong at Daley Bicentennial Plaza in Grant Park

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"This has become far more than a fight over a museum and a patch of land. How this issue is resolved will have an enormous influence of the future form of the City of Chicago, and so we thought it an opportune time to summarize the reasons why the Chicago Children's Museum doesn't belong in Grant Park."

1. The very concept of the museum is fatally flawed.

2. The flawed concept for the Children's Museum has doomed any chance for great architecture.

3. If the Children's Museum rancorous campaign is allowed to succeed, it will poison public discourse for years to come.

4. Like the museum, itself, what's really at stake is beneath the surface.

5. The Children's Museum campaign subverts the very concept of public planning.

6. Open Clear and Free Remains a Vital Concept to the City's Well Being.


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Six Reasons the Chicago Children's Museum doesn't belong at Daley Bicentennial Plaza in Grant Park