Grant Park Playground to be Razed for Children's Museum

By Prescott Carlson in News on Jun 14, 2008 12:23PM

Oh, sweet, sweet irony. Part of the controversial plan to move the Chicago Children's Museum to Grant Park will involve removing the playground there. A playground that's free for all to use as opposed to paying admission to a museum, currently $32 for a family of four. For the kids that live in the surrounding high rises, that playground is their backyard and the only convenient place for them to play outside. And now their nannies are pissed that they might have to schlep the brats 8 blocks north. Won't somebody think of the nannies?

"If not here, where will we take them?" Nanny Marta says. "All we have is the water park and one playground on Chicago and Michigan. That is too far."

Besides, as Nanny Ashley points out, there are only so many days you can spend at a museum.

"They shouldn't ruin this great space for something we can't use all the time," she says. "If Ines didn't have this place, she'd go crazy."

What, Mayor Daley, you don't want children from the city playing in Grant Park? You don't want children? [S-T]

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