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BY TARA MOLINA MARCH 21, 2022 / 10:41 PM / CBS CHICAGO CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago advocacy groups continue to fight the removal of trees in Jackson Park. They say the Jackson Park Golf Course expansion plans mean hundreds more trees will come down - on top of the more than 800 trees that will go once the Obama Presidential Center construction is complete. As CBS 2's Tara Molina reported, the organizations formally petitioned the city Monday. They want the golf course expansion plan to be put up for a vote; for the city to allow those who live near Jackson Park to have a say in whether or not the trees go. Jackson Park is full of arboreal beauty. And you'd be pressed to find anyone who knows and appreciates them quite like Jeannette Hoyt does. She pointed out one tree called a "legacy tree" or a "heritage tree," that she said is "probably about 150 years old."
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