Chicago's mayor faces a revolt

Concern about the Chicago Children’s Museum proposal to build a new 100,000 square foot building in Grant Park has spread way beyond the neighborhood. This week articles on the topic have appeared in publications from coast to coast and even in Europe, mostly drawing from material syndicated by the Associated Press. Even the Economist, a well-known British newsweekly with international distribution, covered the topic with an article of their own, stating that “In a fight over Grant Park, Chicago's mayor faces a small revolt.”

Your help is needed to fuel that revolt. Each and every Chicago alderman needs to hear from constituents. Contact your friends and family throughout Chicago. Contact your enemies, too, as long as they love Grant Park. Ask them all to call their aldermen and encourage them to support Alderman Brendan Reilly and oppose the Chicago Children’s Museum plan to build in Grant Park.

It’s easy to get the word out - visit the Save Grant Park website, and click the Tell a friend link to generate an email message that you can send to friends. The message includes information on how to identify your alderman and get the phone number.

Keep those calls to aldermen coming - Chicago’s city council must be reminded that Grant Park is not up for grabs.

1) CALL YOUR ALDERMAN'S OFFICE.
State your name and address and ask the alderman to support Alderman Brendan Reilly’s efforts to save Grant Park. This takes only a minute.

2) ASK OTHERS TO DO THE SAME!
Not sure how to ask? Go to www.savegrantpark.com and click the “Tell a friend” link which makes it easy to use your own email software to send a message with instructions on why and how to contact alderman.

Don't know the ward? Look it up here: http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo/

Find the alderman's phone number (lookup by ward or name): http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncil/alderman/find.html