Friends of the Parks’ former executive director Cassandra Francis says she left that job in the midst of battles over the Lucas Museum and the Obama presidential library to join her husband in Qatar.
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What’s number one on Friends of the Parks’ watch list? We’ll give you one guess
Lucas Museum and Obama Library sites top first Friends of the Parks endangered open space list.
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The Lucas Museum: On soggy ground?
Friends of the Parks’ lawsuit over the proposed site of the Lucas Museum goes beyond a dispute over the lakefront and into federal court.
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Friends of the Parks files suit to stop the Lucas Museum
Friends of the Parks is going to federal court today to prevent the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art from building on Park District property.
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The Lucas Museum is off-limits
But the Chicago Park District wants your input on the Museum Campus.
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A bank set up on public land in Grant Park—what’s next?
The Chicago Park District turns over public space to a private company without a bidding process or clear rules.
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Chicago doesn’t have to rubber-stamp the Lucas Museum
Just because Mayor Rahm wants to put the George Lucas museum on lakefront land doesn’t mean you, the people, have to let him do it.