"Mayor Richard M. Daley, one of Axelrod's friends and earliest clients, is pushing construction of a new Children's Museum in Grant Park to replace a facility on Navy Pier that the museum says it has outgrown. So far, though, "open-space" foes have stymied the move. The museum retained ASK early in 2007. Total federal earmarks Obama requested for Chicago Children's Museum, for the construction of a new Chicago Children's Museum facility: $1,300,000."

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