Meetings Over: 3 Fast Ways to Save the Park

The last of the neighborhood meetings has ended. Nine meetings, lots of attendees, most squarely opposed to the Chicago Children's Museum proposal to relocate to Daley Bicentennial Plaza in Grant Park. This had been planned as a neighborhood meeting, for the latest version of the plan to be presented to residents of the community nearby. But most of the hundreds of residents of the buildings near the park who attended the meeting stood in the hallways through the meeting, which was packed well before starting time by museum supporters from other communities.

Alderman Reilly spent much of the meeting in the hallways speaking to his constituents. He has said he will state a position next week. Since he has heard plenty from us already, and he knows which side his bread is buttered on, it's time for us to raise the bar with these three fast steps to voice the message to city government (number 3 is good even if you don't live in Chicago):

1) Call Mayor Daley's office at (312) 744-3300, let him know where you live, and tell him that you are opposed to museum construction Daley Bicentennial Plaza.

2) Email Arnold Randall, Chicago's new Commissioner of Planning and Development, arandall@cityofchicago.org , let him know where you live, and tell him that you are opposed to museum construction Daley Bicentennial Plaza.

3) Call a friend (or two,three...) who lives in Chicago, and ask your friend to take these same steps!