The Chicago Tribune describes the nearly crazed demand for the Chicago Park District’s recreational programming. Th article indicates that a rush to get into classes was happening in “thousands of homes across the city Monday, as parents frantically attempted to get their children into the 10-week spring classes including gymnastics ($47), basketball ($20) and children’s [...]
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The Chicago Tribune takes a look at the city’s new Riverwalk along the Chicago River. A series of parks, walkways and plazas that give continuous access to a river that slithers through forest of skyscrapers, these places are giving the city an entirely different feel. The article gives a good overview of the track the [...]
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A New York Times article today spotlights the new High Line park built atop an elevated rail line in Manhattan. The High Line offers a retreat from street life, a bucolic space floating 30 feet in the air with Hudson River views. Yet it retains many elements of its gritty past: graffiti is prevalent on [...]
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Streetfilms gives a neat look at the Sunday Parkways program in Chicago, in which about three miles of the city’s parkways were closed to car traffic on four Sundays in October, including through parks. The route cut through neighborhoods lacking park space, and essentially turned the city’s wide boulevards into large linear parks. The video [...]
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Whatever the result of today’s election, its worth noting the remarkable amount of people that have visited city parks for mostly Barack Obama rallies this fall. Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park saw 72,000 people this summer, and in recent weeks we’ve seen: 100,000 at the Gateway Arch park in St. Louis, 100,000 at Denver’s Civic [...]
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An earlier post of ours talked about the trend in several cities towards city parks hosting large scale music festivals. The Chicago Sun Times ran a story on the results of this year’s Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park that reportedly drew 225,000 people: This year’s Lollapalooza rock ‘n’ roll festival was music to the ears [...]
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Parks make cities great places for families, but it is the programming of these parks that can make city living even more family friendly. Just look at the Chicago Park District’s Halloween programming, in which it hosts over 100 events throughout the city from hay rides to pumpkin decorating to 5k fun-runs. Take a look [...]
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In recent years, city parks have become home to several music festivals featuring such bands as Radiohead, Cat Power, Kings of Leon, The Roots, Atmosphere and other mostly indie groups. The Bonnaroo and Coachella festivals, set in rural areas, have catered to this genre for quite a few years, but recently more of them have [...]
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