Children's Museum, Daley Moving Forward With Grant Park Plan

By Margaret Lyons in News on Apr 4, 2008 6:37PM

The Chicago Children's Museum is moving ahead with plans to build its new facilities in Grant Park, despite serious objections from what appears to be everyone who's not the Children's Museum or Mayor Daley.

We can put the Sun-Times on the list of organizations that are against the move. Today's editorial says that "[b]uilding a children's museum in Grant Park is still a bad idea," before trotting out the Montgomery Ward line that's legally required to be present in all stories about the park and concluding that "if Daley really wants a museum for all Chicagoans, he should build it on the Near West Side or in the South Loop." There are plenty of other options, too.

The museum has employed major PR and marketing firms to help with the push, including political strategist David Axelrod's consulting group and mega-PR firm Hill and Knowlton. The city's Plan Commission will vote April 17, after which the City Council will have its say. [S-T, S-T, Lynn Becker's take, Beachwood Reporter, Trib]