Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $30 million plan to merge the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses into a single, championship-caliber course has hit a fundraising slowdown amid fears of exactly how the redesigned holes would be built along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
Michael Ruemmler, the former mayoral campaign manager now serving as a founding director of the Chicago Parks Golf Alliance, said private donors want to see results…..
Jackson Park — home of the future Barack Obama Presidential Center and a proposed PGA-level golf course — made this year’s list of most endangered sites, released Wednesday by Preservation Chicago.
The advocacy group, which releases the list annually, said Jackson Park and the South Shore Cultural Center parkland….
Barack Obama is building his presidential library on Chicago’s South Side, in Chicago’s Jackson Park and next to Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Chicago residents will weigh in on it, Chicago aldermen will vote whether to approve it and Chicago benefactors will be asked to open their wallets to support it.
So it would be reasonable to think that the first hints about the project’s design would be dropped somewhere in Chicago…..
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WOODLAWN — Calls for a more cohesive plan binding the disparate projects in Jackson Park intensified significantly this week.
On Monday, 5th Ward Ald. Leslie Hairston released a letter calling on the Obama Foundation to start talking more publicly about its plans….
The Obama Foundation, the not-for-profit developing the first African-American president’s library and museum in Jackson Park, was criticized by a local alderman Monday for not sharing enough information on how South Side residents will benefit from the high-profile project.
“My primary concern is how the Obama Foundation plans to engage the community….
The Obama Foundation has floated plans to community leaders to close sections of Cornell Drive between 60th and 67th Street, and possibly Marquette Drive from Cornell to Lake Shore Drive….
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s former campaign manager came out of the shadows Monday to make the case for merging the Jackson Park and South Shore golf courses into a single, championship-caliber course.
Michael Ruemmler’s role as a founding director of the Chicago Parks Golf Alliance has fueled speculation that the fix was in for a project that gained momentum when President Barack Obama chose Jackson Park for his presidential library….
Whether or not the Obama Foundation gets the green light to close a major road that helps connect Lake Shore Drive and the Chicago Skyway, give the concept this much: It puts a key issue on the civic agenda — how to re-balance the pedestrian-car relationship in Jackson Park.
At this point, it’s weighted heavily in favor of cars…..
The Obama Foundation is floating the idea of closing a major thoroughfare that connects Lake Shore Drive motorists to the South Side and a key route to Indiana and Michigan to create a pedestrian campus around its planned presidential library and museum in Jackson Park, according to several people briefed on the private discussions.
The bold suggestion to close off Cornell Drive between 60th and 67th streets is being floated with community leaders. Such a move would be yet another seismic shift for the historic park, where private interests are advancing major changes…..
Chicago Park District CEO Mike Kelly met with a packed room of 5th Ward residents Tuesday night, Jan. 24, at South Shore Fine Arts Academy, 1415 E. 70th St., to listen and address questions, comments, and concerns regarding the proposed South Shore Golf Complex.
Last month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that Tiger Woods, a career professional golf player, would oversee the renovations for a new, $30 million golf complex for golf courses….