Grant Park Advisory Council (GPAC) and Grant Park Conservancy will hold a public meeting Monday (June 18, 2007) night at 6:30 p.m. at Roosevelt University.

“Please come out and give us and Lollapalooza officials your input on Lollapalooza 2007 in Grant Park.  This year’s Lollapalooza will be: August 3-5, 2007.  We want to hear from you to make this a better event and work to reduce concerns.”

For more information see Lollapalooza 2007 meeting.

Reilly’s comments at a Friends fo the Park meeting last month regarding the plans to move the Children’s Museum to the north end of Grant Park -

From ArchitectureChicago PLUS - “On the proposed move of the Chicago Children’s Museum to a new building in Grant Park -
Reilly: That’s been a bit of a political football. . . . That’s something that will be thoroughly vetted, building by building, in the [New Eastside]. I find it curious that there are certain organizations out there, that have in their charter a mission statement of preserving open space, that are actually advocating for additional building for Grant Park. I don’t understand that. How these folks can look [you in] the eye and say, yes, we’re here to preserve Grant Park, but please put this building in, I don’t understand that.”

http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/06/chicagos-downtown-aldermen-pushovers-no.html

There is a meeting scheduled at North Harbor Tower tomorrow, July 10th. 

The Sun-Time reports on how Reilly’s win could change the landscape for development projects downtown –

“Jack Guthman, a zoning attorney for leading developers, said he has met Reilly and thinks “he’s a balanced and thoughtful person” who will entertain reasonable discussions.

“Natarus, Guthman added, didn’t deserve the charge of being too project-friendly. “He was always upfront and straight-forward, even on things we didn’t like to hear,” Guthman said.”

http://www.suntimes.com:80/business/278172,CST-FIN-nat01.article 

I made from minor updates on the New Eastside Discussion board including adding a logo at the top and I removed some sections including “Key Stats” and the News block which I thought were distracting and not adding much to the look of the site. Hopefully it is a little less “busy” for new visitors. I have also added a Recent Posts block at the bottom. Click here to register and join in the action.

I also made a post on this board asking for suggestions from the experts.. what do you think? I know there are lots of different themes but it would be nice to simply modify an existing one and insert some graphics for the neighborhood in various appropriate places.

The next thing will be to update this blog with some custom graphics and make it look a little more like the rest of the site :-).

Eric