[Chicago Children's Museum] Option 6: Logan Square
Chicago Tribune – May 4, 2008

We hope Chicago's 50 aldermen--or museum board members with the courage to confront their leaders--state the obvious: No matter what the design, no matter how deep the burial of a museum, Grant Park is off limits: "forever open, clear and free."

But this $100 million project would be a spectacular investment in one of many neighborhoods. A setting away from uniquely protected Grant Park would give architects room to create an above-ground masterpiece--as opposed to a concrete tomb.

One unorthodox but intriguing possibility: Erect a combined Children's Museum, activities campus and neighborhood park near, and over, Blue Line tracks southeast of Logan Square on Chicago's Northwest Side.

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Visit www.savegrantpark.org for a comprehensive list of press coverage of this issue, and also to sign the online petition!

[Chicago Children's Museum] Option 5: Garfield Park
Chicago Tribune - April 30, 2008

As part of our search for a good above-ground museum site—one that wouldn't condemn visiting children and their families to a gloomy underground sarcophagus—we're evaluating several spots away from the lakefront. One common advantage: ease of highway access, room for parking, and less road congestion for school buses and autos. Among these potentially excellent locations: Garfield Park, at roughly the geographic center of the city.

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[Chicago Children's Museum] Option 4: Pritzker Park
Chicago Tribune - April 27, 2008

In our quest to help officials of the Chicago Children's Museum undo the dreadful damage they're inflicting on its image, we offer this fourth alternative to their attempted land grab of a relocation site in Grant Park: If you don't have paws and a tail--or feathers and a beak--you may not spend time in a pleasant but essentially featureless, L-shaped plot of land in Chicago's South Loop. Few spots in the city are so ripe to enhance into a kid-friendly learning environment. This might well be an excellent location for a new Chicago Children's Museum.

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[Chicago Children’s Museum] Option 3: Lincoln Campus
Chicago Tribune – April 23, 2008

A coalition of community, environmental, consumer rights and labor groups now formally opposes the proposed interjection of a new Chicago Children's Museum into Grant Park. Citizen Action / Illinois joins the rising clamor of voices urging Chicago's mayor and aldermen to find a better (and legal) site.

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[Chicago Children’s Museum] Option 2: Children’s Island
Chicago Tribune – April 20, 2008

Placing the Children's Museum on Northerly Island would expand and enhance the Museum Campus—a safe and natural home for this facility. And while this is lake frontage, it doesn't have the special legal protections of Grant Park.

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[Chicago Children’s Museum] Option 1: Riverwalk
Chicago Tribune – April 15, 2008

In a city of some 230 square miles, we'd like to help this museum have a spectacular home. We do, though, ask that the museum officials not cheat future centuries of children out of inheriting the same Grant Park that earlier Chicagoans bequeathed to all of us.

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Changing a museum’s agenda
Chicago Tribune, April 17, 2008

Grant Park has survived this long for all of us to enjoy only because people of uncommon courage took bold actions to protect it.

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Walter Jacobson on Eight Forty-Eight
Chicago Public Radio WBEZ 91.5 FM, April 8, 2008

[The Chicago Children’s Museum has] told Mayor Daley they simply cannot imagine their big new museum anywhere but in Grant Park. Problem is there’s not supposed to be a museum in the park, or a high-rise or any new building in the park… Four times during the past l50 years, the [Illinois] Supreme Court has said that Grant Park is to be forever, forever, open, clear and free of buildings. Just like Daniel Burnham hoped it would always be.

Click here to listen to Walter Jacobson’s commentary on NPR.