Fri 7 Sep 2007
FINAL meeting on the Children’s Museum
Posted by Eric Frost under Reilly , Chicago Politics , Parks , Tribune , 42nd Ward , Grant Park , Children's Museum , Chicago News , Daley Bicentennial Plaza , New EastsidePeggy Figiel writes - “Hi All,
As you may already know the FINAL meeting on the Children’s Museum issue will be held this Monday, September 10 at 6:30 PM at Daley Bicentennial Fieldhouse. This is a NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING hosted by NEAR. You must be bring the postcard you may have already received in the mail from Alderman Reilly or some form of ID to admitted!! This is in response to the mass email the Children’s Museum has sent out telling people to have their family and friends get there early, take all the seats and pack the meeting!! If they do not live here they will not be admitted!!
Reilly’s entire staff will be on hand to check the doors ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPT.!!
We are asking everyone to attend this very important meeting even if you have previously attended your building meeting! We need a HUGE turnout of opposition!! We will have signs available and we ask you to get there as early as possible.
The CCM will present yet another design for the museum, this one apparently completely underground. I hope everyone read the Tribune Editorial Board’s piece in Sunday’s paper opposing a museum in Grant Park.
We ARE being heard and need to make the FINAL EFFORT FOR VICTORY!! There will be a lot of media present and we want to show a strong, final united front! This issue has brought this neighborhood together like no other and that’s why it is such a great place to live!
We appreciate all the work everyone has done writing & e-mailing letters, making phone calls, and attending meetings. AFTER THIS MEETING ALDERMAN REILLY WILL MAKE HIS DECISION PUBLIC AND THIS ISSUE WILL BE OVER!
PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING AND GETTING THERE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.
Thank you and see you on Monday.
Peggy Figiel”
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September 7th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Peggy reports that “I have just received word that the CCM has spoken with the Police Dept. and the attorneys with the park District and have demanded they have be allowed in. Reilly had to consent.”
September 8th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Peggy Figiel writes more today —
“We have just been informed that the Museum has contacted attorneys from the Park District and the Police Dept. demanding access for their supporters to the meeting and they are getting it!! THIS IS NO LONGER A NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING BUT A COMMUNITY MEETING.
“The Museum IS PAYING COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS TO COME AND BUS PEOPLE IN TO THIS MEETING. THEIR STRATEGY IS TO ARRIVE EARLY AND TAKE ALL THE SEATS.”
So,
New-Eastside.com readers who have an opinion about this issue are advised to arrive early!
Eric
September 8th, 2007 at 1:29 am
[…] In the latest move, the Children’s Museum organization is expected to bus in hundreds of supporters in advance of the upcoming “neighborhood meeting” hosted by NEAR to take all available seats and shut out real neighborhood residents from expressing their opposition to the proposed move ( see http://blog.new-eastside.com/final-meeting-on-the-childrens-museum/, especially the comments). This was originally intended to be a meeting (again it is hosted by NEAR) open only to neighborhood residents. […]