24 Places and Grant Park Ain't One
Oh man, we almost forgot about the Children's Museum debate! Luckily, Alderman Brendan Reilly wants to keep it front and center, which is why he sent the Museum a list of 24 possible places it could relocate that aren't Grant Park:
+ Museum Campus + Northerly Island + Logan Square + Garfield Park Conservatory + Pritzker Park + Washington Park + Bronzeville + Calumet Park + Englewood + State and Van Buren + McCormick Place East + Museum of Broadcast History |
+ Chicago Riverwalk + Michigan and Roosevelt + Notebaert Nature Museum + Lincoln Park Zoo (adjacent to zoo) + Old U.S. Post Office + Chicago Athletic Association + Carson Pirie Scott Building (State Street) + Former Brach's Candy Factory + U.S. Cellular Field (adjacent to ballpark) + Expansion on Navy Pier + Montrose Park + 1 S. Dearborn (50 percent vacant) |
Residents of the 42 Ward are afraid that the plans are on the agenda for a March 20 Chicago Plan Commission meeting, which sources from the Museum denied to the Sun-Times.
We like the Museum staying at (on?) Navy Pier, but a lot of these suggestions sound pretty good--plus if it moved into the old Brach's factory, couldn't the new slogan for the Museum be "It's like being a kid in a candy store" or something? We threw that one in for free, City of Chicago.
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