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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

I'd encourage you to rethink that assessment. Many hundreds of acres of open space, including enormous tracts surrounding Lake Calumet and at South Works, were set aside during the Daley years. Dozens of schoolgrounds around the city were expanded into neighborhood parks, and new parks like Ward, Palmisano, Senka, Ping Tom Memorial, Battle of Ft. Dearborn, Bartelme, and Daley were created in former industrial areas. Nearly everything on Kngkyle's list began in the Daley years.

On the other hand, as soon as Emanuel is in office, he gives the park at the Roosevelt Collection back to developers, takes parkland for the Obama magnet high school, and offers lakefront parkland to the Lucas Museum.

As has been discussed ad nauseam, the Lucas Museum will be sitting on an existing surface parking lot, with 15 acres of NEW park space surrounding the new museum. I can only assume you're a die-hard Bear fan who's livid about losing tailgating space