August 14: Event Happenings

Women's Garden, Jackson Park / Between 59th and 60th Streets, just east of Stony Island

Jackson Park

Jackson Park has historical significance to Chicago. 

Air Quality

Jackson Park is an important resource for carbon offsetting and other tree canopy benefits.

Politics

Using public land for private enterprise is a bad precedent in a demographic society.

Public Health

The rate of asthma in Chicago's children surpasses state and national levels. We need Jackson Park's trees to contribute to Chicago's air quality.

South Shore Gentrification

Destroying main transportation arteries historically alters neighborhood balance. Have the impacts of the planned closing of Cornell Drive been evaluated and discussed with South Shore residents' futures in mind?

Finding a site for the OPC that benefits the Southside

There is another, better site for Jackson Park: adjacent to Washington Park.

Tammi Smith
A Child's Trip to Jackson Park

09:00

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W. J. T. Mitchell
Why Jackson Park Matters
What is the historic significance
​of Jackson Park?  

09:15

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Janice Misurell-Mitchell
 A view of the politics involved in this choice from a neighbor's point of view

09:30

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J. Hoyt
Connections Between Asthma, Air Quality, Tree Removal, and Climate Change

9:45

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Leonard Goodman
Obama Wants His Private Presidential
Center on Public Land --
​And MSM Is Looking the Other Way

10:00

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Marc Lipinski
Impacting Neighborhood Communities by Destroying Their Thoroughfares

10:15

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Brett Rydzon
Asthma Incidence: It's Personal.

10:30

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Ray Lodato
Jackson Park Watch Update

10:45

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J. Hoyt
What About Washington Park?

11:00

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Exchanging ideas, forward planning 

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