Post-Lollapalooza repairs to Grant Park began Tuesday, and Chicago Park District officials are aiming for it to take far less time than last year's fixes, when trampled plants and torn-up grass worsened by a rainstorm lingered into the fall.
Post-Lollapalooza repairs to Grant Park began Tuesday, and Chicago Park District officials are aiming for it to take far less time than last year's fixes, when trampled plants and torn-up grass worsened by a rainstorm lingered into the fall.
The City of Chicago has revoked the permit for a Daley Plaza demonstration by National Nurses United, citing the group's plan to feature a performance by guitarist Tom Morello.
The demonstration, preceded by a march, was scheduled for the weekend of the NATO summit and had been approved by the city months ago, the Trib says. Read more...
A 20-acre stretch of Grant Park known as Daley Bicentennial Plaza, east of Millennium Park, will be closed for two years starting in fall of 2012 to make way for repairs in an underground parking garage and an overhaul of the park space.
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For the second weekend in a row, anti-Wall Street protesters marched through the downtown streets in another attempt to take over Grant Park. And for the second time, police arrested those who refused to leave the park after it closed.
Large portions of Grant Park remain barren long after Lollapalooza crowds and storms devastated the concert grounds — and officials are starting to receive complaints.
