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Home » Jackson Park

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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Groundhog Day in federal court for the Obama Center

by Deanna Isaacs July 21, 2021August 18, 2021

Protect Our Parks wants to put the brakes on the Obama Center groundbreaking.

Posted inCity Life

Reset your mind with cherry blossoms

by Salem Collo-Julin April 16, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations from our listings coordinator

Rendering of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Obama Center: opening in 2025

by Deanna Isaacs February 17, 2021August 18, 2021

But Protect Our Parks says more legal challenges are coming for the Jackson Park plan.

Posted inMusic

The Chosen Few Picnic & Festival comes to everybody’s backyards

by Leor Galil June 30, 2020August 18, 2021

For its 30th anniversary, one of the world’s largest house-music parties has been pushed online by the pandemic—but it might reach even more people that way.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago’s seven “most endangered” buildings

by Deanna Isaacs February 26, 2020August 18, 2021

Preservation Chicago releases its 2020 list.

Posted inMusic

Photos: The grill masters of the Chosen Few Picnic

by Leor Galil and Zakkiyyah Najeebah July 9, 2019August 18, 2021

The grill masters of the Chosen Few Picnic are the fans who feed the fans.

Posted inMusic

The Chosen Few Picnic is the homegrown festival every Chicagoan should attend

by Leor Galil June 27, 2019August 18, 2021

If you’ve ever wished that more music festivals were like family picnics, then you need to go to this Jackson Park house-music blowout. In the late 80s, DJs and brothers Tony and Andre Hatchett and their families began hosting an annual Fourth of July reunion barbecue behind the Museum of Science and Industry. For the […]

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A judge has dismissed the lawsuit that sought to stop the Obama Presidential Center

by Deanna Isaacs June 11, 2019August 18, 2021

The activist group Protect Our Parks has been fighting to keep the center out of Jackson Park.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

After a Halloween vote by the City Council, it looks like the Obama Presidential Center is finally a done deal

by Deanna Isaacs November 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Among the voters: Freddy Krueger, a bunny, a shark, and Prince.

Posted inArts & Culture

Now’s the time to visit Jackson Park while you still can

by Kate Schmidt September 19, 2018August 18, 2021

See Frederick Law Olmsted’s stunning grounds before the Obama Center further encroaches.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

A lawsuit to prevent the Obama Presidential Center’s ‘illegal land grab’ in Jackson Park is moving forward

by Deanna Isaacs August 17, 2018August 18, 2021

The activist group Protect Our Parks claims that the city’s plan to turn 19 acres of Jackson Park over to the Obama Foundation is unconstitutional.

Posted inArts & Culture

There’s no devil in Burnham’s Dream: The White City, only music

by Albert Williams June 14, 2018August 18, 2021

Ragtime! Waltzes! World’s Fair architecture!

Posted inMusic

Does Chicago have too many music festivals?

by Leor Galil May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Lollapalooza’s ticket sales have slowed, and Reggae Fest and Chicago Open Air are canceled—are these the growth pangs of a healthy but crowded festival market, or is a crash on the way?

Posted inBlogs

Chicago’s next great park? Hardly

by Ryan Smith May 21, 2018August 18, 2021

The city is missing a huge opportunity to turn Rezkoville, 62 acres of barren land along the river in the South Loop, into a park or prairie preserve.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

‘East-coasters butt out’ and more from the wildcat Obama Presidential Center debate

by Deanna Isaacs March 9, 2018August 18, 2021

An emotionally symposium at the University of Chicago this week brought out many opinions but few solutions.

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