The petition
To The Chicago Park District:
The destruction of the South Meadow in Lincoln Park (near the bridge over Lake Shore Drive to the North Avenue Beach) must stop. It should be restored to a grass meadow open to all uses and users.
The only reason construction is going on there is because of a secret deal done between the Chicago Park District and the Latin School. That deal was declared illegal and voided by the county court.
Protect Our Parks sued to halt construction and the Illinois Appellate Court agreed. The field should be returned to the way it was before the illegal construction project started. To allow the project to be completed would give the parties who made the secret deal exactly what they wanted in the first place.
Remember - the community spoke out loud and clear in 2002 when a similar project for the same site was proposed by the same parties. The community said "NO THANKS - KEEP THE MEADOW!"
The project was killed in 2002 and we all thought it was dead until it was resurrected in the dead of night. Protect Our Parks was organized to stop the project - and so far we have succeeded in stopping the privatization aspect - but the construction goes on.
It's the wrong use for that space.
We call on the Chicago Park District to restore the meadow to grass. Use the funds you were going to spend on further construction to expand our parks and create new sports fields in other locales, not rip up precious lake front.
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