24 Places and Grant Park Ain't One
By Margaret Lyons in News on Feb 21, 2008 8:00PM
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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