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Home » Cassandra Francis

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Cassandra Francis explains her departure from Friends of the Parks

by Deanna Isaacs May 1, 2015August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

What’s number one on Friends of the Parks’ watch list? We’ll give you one guess

by Deanna Isaacs November 24, 2014August 18, 2021

Lucas Museum and Obama Library sites top first Friends of the Parks endangered open space list.

Friends of the Parks president Cassandra Francis announces its lawsuit at a press conference November 13.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Lucas Museum: On soggy ground?

by Deanna Isaacs November 18, 2014August 18, 2021

Friends of the Parks’ lawsuit over the proposed site of the Lucas Museum goes beyond a dispute over the lakefront and into federal court.

Posted inBlogs

Friends of the Parks files suit to stop the Lucas Museum

by Deanna Isaacs November 13, 2014August 18, 2021

Friends of the Parks is going to federal court today to prevent the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art from building on Park District property.

The biggest change coming to the Museum Campus hasn't been on the agenda for discussion.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Lucas Museum is off-limits

by Deanna Isaacs November 5, 2014August 18, 2021

But the Chicago Park District wants your input on the Museum Campus.

Posted inBlogs

A bank set up on public land in Grant Park—what’s next?

by Will Greenberg July 22, 2014August 18, 2021

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

by Ben Joravsky June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

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.

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