Sentences with phrase «than grant park»

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Through his generosity, The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation has granted more than $ 300 million to support early childhood development, education, the arts, and parks and greenspace.

Despite his background at the Park District, Uhlir says he has no problem with Millennium Park performing a rather more refined role than, say, its immediate neighbor to the south, Grant Park.

OLYMPIA FIELDS — After coveting the property for more than two decades, the Olympia Fields Park District has added 25 acres of forest and wetland to its parks inventory, thanks to the efforts of a non-profit conservation group and a $ 157,500 state grant.

Backers of trapshooting have raised more than $ 6,000 to offset the costs of reopening the park, and a representative from the National Rifle Association said Thursday he would help secure grants.

CHICAGO — Seeking more than $ 1 million, the Chicago Park District filed suit Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court against the company that operated concessions at a number of district locations, including Grant Park.

Responding to more than a year of lobbying by South Loop residents, the Chicago Park District is homing in on a final site for a fenced dog run in Grant Park.

The village could offer more than $ 5 million in TIF dollars for the project, according to officials, with the remainder from grants and park district funds.

Since then, the park district was awarded an Illinois Outdoor Recreation Grant, which, with bonds, was intended to fund the project's more than $ 2.2 million cost.

Park districts in Naperville, Wheaton and St. Charles and the Kane County Forest Preserve District are among 81 agencies in Illinois that will share more than $ 22 million in grants administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

After signing a 10 - year contract last year with the Chicago Park District that will keep Lollapalooza in Grant Park through 2022, Jones said daily capacity was capped at 100,000, which makes its daily attendance bigger than any destination rock festival in North America, including Coachella in California and Bonnaroo in Tennessee.

The City of Chicago is planning for more than 70,000 people to mob an election - night rally in Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an event that will involve police and firefighters working overtime, blocked streets and at least $ 2 million in extra costs.

Several park districts in southern Cook and Will counties have been awarded more than $ 1.1 million in grants by the state and federal government, according to the Illinois Department of Conservation.

Last winter, rabbits damaged more than $ 50,000 worth of landscaping at The Green at Grant Park, an 18 - hole putting course north of Randolph Street.

Poughkeepsie, NY... Visitors to Dutchess County's Bowdoin Park and Wilcox Park will find it easier than ever to recycle with 25 new recycling bins made available through the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group / Keep America Beautiful Park Recycling Bin Grant program.

After more than 4,000 CTU members poured out of the Congress Theater, they were joined by rallying supporters across the street in Grant Park, with the groups merging into a sea of red - shirted marchers.

To offset this, KC Pet Project raised more than $ 350,000 (thanks in large part to a grant by the Petco Foundation) to put a double - wide trailer in the staff parking lot that created a veterinary clinic that is 4x the size of the one in the shelter.

Across the street is Grant Park, while the natural history exhibits at the Field Museum are less than a mile away, as is the Willis Tower.

Nowhere are the benefits of the lighting that developed countries take for granted more achingly on display than in a recent post at The Lede blog by Patrick Lyons, which focused on an Associated Press story and photograph from Conakry, Guinea — where kids were gathered like moths around streetlights in an airport parking lot to do their homework.

There's not a better example of a major city community project to greatly enhance urban life than the creation of Millenium Park near the Chicago River, Lake Michigan, Navy Pier and adjacent to historic Grant Park,

In 2014 the Te Urewera national park, more than 200,000 hectares of remote wilderness on New Zealand's North Island, was granted «personhood», a legal entity with «all the rights, powers, duties and liabilities of a legal person».