Sentences with phrase «lakefront park»

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Enjoy a lakefront park or paddle your way around the lake, boat or even catch your own dinner.

It's a enjoyable as well as green community with many parks including Brinson Park, Lakefront Park, Lake Kissimmee State Park as well as Makinson Island.

«Your plan offers a compromise that preserves an important aviation asset while also creating a new lakefront park space.»

The task force's theory is that the museum, which would hold artwork and more than 500,000 pieces of movie memorabilia, would draw in conventioneers on foot while also creating a new lakefront park on land that is now asphalt, according to the 56 - page reported obtained by The Tribune.

Netsch also sought board approval of a policy that would require lakefront park projects to conform with the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance, which, among other things, requires that lakefront projects get city approval.

The spacious, three - room office suite, on the second floor of the lakefront park district headquarters, 425 E. McFetridge Dr., had also been cleaned of almost all personal and decorative effects.

But the mayor's office, city aviation and Park District officials have criticized efforts by Edgar and his Transportation Department to threaten a lawsuit blocking Meigs» closing and steadfastly have defended the need for a new lakefront park.

The decision came in one of three lawsuits filed by the state seeking to bar the city and the Chicago Park District from converting the 91 - acre airport to a lakefront park.

Converting Meigs Field into a new lakefront park would generate an estimated $ 30 million in economic benefits a year to the city and region, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Chicago Park District.

A Chicago Park District committee approved the plan, which will use landfill to expand the lakefront park between the Stevenson Expressway and 56th Street.

The yacht clubs «method of payment for use of lakefront park land came to light Friday at a meeting of a district committee.

A private gun club using three acres of lakefront park land near Diversey Harbor pays no rent but is open to the public, according to the Friends of the Park.

Erma Tranter, executive director of the Friends of the Park, said her group opposed the request because too much lakefront park land is being used by private clubs.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Park District would appreciate it if you called its newest lakefront park Northerly Island, said spokesman Julian Green.

Fed up with the city «s broken promise to remove abandoned cars from a lakefront parking lot, the president of the Chicago Park District board wants to withdraw an offer to the city to use the lot for holding cars towed under winter parking restrictions now in effect.

Wilmette Park District commissioners hosted a public hearing on Monday to receive feedback on alternative project concepts for both its lakefront parks, created by consultant SmithGroupJJR.

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The Plan addresses all lakefront parks, beaches and ravine eco-systems:

While searching for Illinois new homes you will find the City of Chicago is full of natural and man - made wonders, where you will find miles of beautiful lakefront parks and beaches, sprawling neighborhoods of every ethnic culture, and the world's tallest skyscrapers.

Not exact matches

There are activities all week and Public Square, Voinovich Park, Burke Lakefront Airport, are all full of sights like this.

Ignoring the pleas of local residents, naturalists, campers and other troublesome characters, some nameless highway men with a surplus of cash have decreed that, like it or not, they shall have an expressway there, and if it happens to slice through the one state park with a lakefront view (it does), well, that's just too bad, but Progress hath her price.

Brushing aside a last - ditch effort by backers of Meigs Field to reopen the lakefront airport, the Chicago Park District Board on Wednesday approved a contract to demolish Meigs» runway.

Park District staff officials who have seen the plans have reacted positively, said Bridget O'Keefe, the district's lakefront planning director.

The project also will connect the park to the riverfront and lakefront.

For two years, Park District officials have considered assuming the operation to expand its lakefront portfolio.

«Are we going to privatize the whole lakefront, or all of the Park District lots on the lakefront?»

LAKEFRONT — Crews will begin transforming the former home of Meigs Field into a park expected to open this summer, a Chicago Park District spokesman said Monpark expected to open this summer, a Chicago Park District spokesman said MonPark District spokesman said Monday.

The $ 1.5 million bid from Pacific Construction Services, 3949 N. Pulaski Rd., was the lowest from the six companies competing for the work, Robert Rejman, the parks» director of lakefront construction, told a board committee meeting Wednesday morning.

The Chicago Park District on Friday asked the Illinois Appellate Court to vacate its order delaying the start of the demolition of Meigs Field until after Oct. 25, citing a complex interlocking series of construction plans along the lakefront.

Such let - them - eat - cake sentiments aren't appreciated by those who enjoy free parking with fresh lakefront air.

Buckingham Fountain, the landmark centerpiece of Grant Park's lakefront landscape, might be under a tent as soon as September after the Park District approved a $ 25 million renovation project Wednesday that is expected to last several months.

There soon will be no such thing as free parking along Chicago's lakefront.

In fact, things apparently have gotten so chaotic at the crowded lakefront site that the Wilmette Park District Board of Commissioners is asking the Village Board to provide police patrols to enforce thelaws.

Northerly Island — in truth, a peninsula, extending south from the city's lakefront Museum Campus — is Chicago Park District property.

Chicago Park District leaders said Tuesday that free parking along the lakefront will disappear in about four to six weeks.

«This has historically been such a congested area, traffic-wise,» said the parks» lakefront director, Colleen Rock Mueller.

Buckingham Fountain, the landmark centerpiece of Grant Park's lakefront landscape, may be hidden under a tent as soon as September after the Chicago Park District approved a $ 25 million, several - month - long renovation project Wednesday.

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Dinges is a consultant for the $ 632 million Lakefront Redevelopment Project, a partnership of the City of Chicago, Chicago Park District and Bears.

The Lakefront Redevelopment Project, which is also the south lakefront, will add 17 acres of parkland to Burnham Park, just a few years after the creation of the Museum Campus, one of the jewels of the Chicago park system and an internationally renowned culturaLakefront Redevelopment Project, which is also the south lakefront, will add 17 acres of parkland to Burnham Park, just a few years after the creation of the Museum Campus, one of the jewels of the Chicago park system and an internationally renowned culturalakefront, will add 17 acres of parkland to Burnham Park, just a few years after the creation of the Museum Campus, one of the jewels of the Chicago park system and an internationally renowned cultural ancPark, just a few years after the creation of the Museum Campus, one of the jewels of the Chicago park system and an internationally renowned cultural ancpark system and an internationally renowned cultural anchor.

The plans for Burnham and Jackson Parks, the South Shore Cultural Center and the Midway Plaisance are intended to solve inequities between the the north and south lakefront.

The only money paid to the Chicago Park District by the eight private yacht clubs that use prime park district land on the city «s lakefront are taxes on the gasoline and oil they sell to boaters — a total of about $ 24,000 a yPark District by the eight private yacht clubs that use prime park district land on the city «s lakefront are taxes on the gasoline and oil they sell to boaters — a total of about $ 24,000 a ypark district land on the city «s lakefront are taxes on the gasoline and oil they sell to boaters — a total of about $ 24,000 a year.

«That project built a wall that juts out 100 feet south of the river, and created a space for us to build the harbor,» said Bridget Gainer - Kieby, lakefront director of the Chicago Park District.

Saving the beaches helped protect the shoreline, said Patrick Reardon, a historian of Chicago and former Tribune urban affairs writer who wrote a report for Friends of the Parks in 2009 on the four miles of lakefront that were still privately owned.

The council amended the city's Lakefront Protection Ordinance to allow the sale of beer, wine and spirits on the island, which is controlled by the Chicago Park District.

Under the proposal the Adler introduced to the park board last month, tickets to the lakefront planetarium would have gone up to $ 7 for Chicago children.

The Chicago Park District on Wednesday announced a $ 387 million budget chock - full of new amenities ranging from a lakefront in - line skating rink to a domed - pool for indoor swimming.

8 a.m. - 8 p.m. June 16, 17; Rogers Park lakefront.

But the new Museum Campus, which officially opens Thursday, has proven to be the great unifier: All the various factions with an interest in the lakefront played a role in creating the campus, which will link the museums for the first time in one continuous park featuring terraced gardens and broad walkways.