Children's Museum lowers its profile in new Grant Park design p...

Jerry wrote:

Now all we need do is relocate all the traffic! This plan will be better for children with more light and less traffic at Northerly Island.

No one wants sticky suburban spawn SUVS and double wide strollers on NI.

With this design, the CCM shows they really do not understand the nature of the protections.

From the article: "And a 20-foot glassy pavilion at Randolph Street that would have served as an entrance will now be moved off park land and onto an expanded public sidewalk."

It is a building that will obstruct the view thru the park, whether it is on the park property or not.

And this is aside from the fact that the rest of the building from the ground below is a building.

And their traffic plan for the neighborhood might work if people knew about it. Recently, the Harris theater traffic had Randolph St totally blocked going east, while about 20 buses were unloading.

Living in this neighborhood is tough now. It will be a challenge for the patrons of the CCM to get here.

I don't care where the leadership of CCM was schooled or how smart they are. They seem to me to be as dumb as rocks.

Chicago Children's Museum
Board of Directors

Gigi Pritzker Pucker -- Chairman
Matthew Neumeier -- Secretary
Kevin F. Flynn -- Treasurer

Susan Abrams
Robert Barnett
Prue Beidler
Ananth Bhogaraju
Meredith Bluhm-Wolf
John Boswell
Carole Brown
Blakely Bundy
Angela Carter
Bruce Cohen
Brendan Deely
Laura Dunne
Marilyn Eisenberg
Frank Ginn
Jacqueline Griesdorn
Karen Harrison
Adam Hecktman
Lindy Hirschsohn
Paula Kahn
Shannon Kennedy
Julie Latsko
Peggy Lim
Todd Lippman
Robert Mendonsa
Maydene Moore
Nadine Moore
Suzanne Muchin
Charlene Huang Olson
Georgy Ann Peluchiwski
Jeffery S. Perry
Teresa Poggenpohl
Camille Rudge
Rex Sessions
James Smith
Chase Stevenson
Mary Tyree
Lisa Walker
Robb Webb
Brenda Wolf
Thomas Zidar
Ronna Zoll

CEO -- Peter England
President and COO -- Jennifer Farrington

CONTACT THEM:
http://www.chicagochildrensmuseum.org/forms.h...

What about this?

(a) Put the Indianapolis museum (ranked 1st) in Grant Park

(b) Move the Chicago museum (ranked 31st) to Indianapolis

(c) Have the Pritzkers throw in some cash for the people of Indianapolis to make it up to them?

http://www.parents.com/family-life/travel/us-...

Stop it wrote:

Daley can't have his way so he will have a tantrum! Bo HOOO

Maybe he'll pop something & have to step down for medical reasons. I won't cry much on the political front considering I've been voting against him in the last few elections.

Sign the petition online!

http://www.savegrantpark.org

The high paid museum team has no intention of this being built below ground. They'll come up with excuses requiring them to make 'slight adjustments' to the plan and it'll become another Navy Pier. Except this time, it'll be in the heart of OUR park.

I guarentee that some where in the bottom drawer of Daley's desk is a full blown plan that shows his vision of Grant Park in 10 years. Every major Chicago corp will have a pavilion/compound with signage and towering building (all for the kids of course). There will be black tie galas from one end of the park to the other. Scary as this sounds, you know it's coming, unless we stop it.
Write your alderman.

Bury Daley, not our children

People have no vision these days. These parks are not utilized, it is time to bring in private business and make the functional. You all sound like a bunch of tree hugging Obama supporters. Wake up!

Jimbo -there is a vision for Grant Park...but it does not include
crass commercialization using faux "educational" playzones that cater
to machine clouted crowds. The vision does not include pandering to
the lowest common denominator by caving to pressures of the day. It
is a vision of enduring ideals of quality of life. The vision is simple-
natural, open and healthy amidst the urban core. It is a vision above politics of the day and extends far into the lifetime of Chicagoans
to come who will cherish sunshine, nature and greenspace even more.
Tree hugging is mainstream as is clean air, reduced energy use,
green technology, an increasing awareness of the need for parks.
water management and offsetting our carbon footprint.

You need to wake up.

this is incredibly nonhelpful

I haven't read every post, but does anyone else think this looks like some Egyptian tomb?

Are these people nuts or what?

They want to bury children and deface the Grant Park and the lakefront.

Shame on you, Daley, and your rich friends/donors.

Michael wrote:

I'm waiting for their proposal a few weeks from now to be a manhole cover in the sidewalk with a ladder going down to the museum, and the Children's Museum logo painted on the manhole cover.
And then a few weeks after that they'll say "OK, no logo."

LOL, literally. The ladder really got me.

Thanks.

what the heck wrote:

I haven't read every post, but does anyone else think this looks like some Egyptian tomb?
Are these people nuts or what?
They want to bury children and deface the Grant Park and the lakefront.
Shame on you, Daley, and your rich friends/donors.

Your response is quite funny. Agree with your reaction.

My suspicion is that the design is to get approved only. They say it will not change but it will. There are code violations in the rederings.

I suspect you will see an above ground building - why - because of the children.