Talk:Grant Park (Chicago)

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Uh - this should move to something like 'Grant Park, Chicago', leaving room for the any number of Grant Parks world wide (e.g., Atlanta, where it's the second largest park and the location of both the highest spot in the incorporated city and the city zoo). MichaelTinkler

Changes by shoffman11

I found this article seriously lacking in content and in need of WP:CU so I fixed it. I added sections for History, Features, See Also, References, and External Links. I revised and expanded the history section. I started the Features section (feel free to add more if I missed any). I added two more pictures to the page. I added a See Also section with links to other Chicago parks. I added references so this article has verifiablity. Finally, I added an External Links section with links to maps of the park. Shoffman11 22:38, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Minneapolis

There is also another Grant Park that I'm aware of — in central Minneapolis MN.

MapPoint

I searched for Grant Park in MapPoint 2006 yesterday and I believe there were like 500 of them. Not precise on the count, but at least there were more then 5. http://www.mapforums.com 75.22.224.130 20:22, 4 October 2007 (UTC) Eric

Not sure!

The Metra tracks do NOT run at "original" grade. The Metra tracks follow the Illinois Central original trellis alignment. As such, Michigan Avenue represents the "original" shoreline of the lake. These tracks were built on an elevated trellis out in the lake. All of Grant Park is made of man-made landfill. Some from the fire, some from the Chicago Tunnel Company, and some from accumulated silt from the lake. Do your research people! J. Crocker 01:42, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Children's Museum

I have to add this notable and major legal battle and new museum here: The Mayor Richard Daley-controlled Chicago Plan Commission approved (13-to-2 vote) on May 15, 2008 the mayor's plan to build a new $100 million Children's Museum from Navy Pier to Grant Park, laying the ground for a City Council showdown or court challenge. Residents of high-rises surrounding the Daley Bicentennial Plaza site near Millennium Park had their case, for despite 5 redesigns, the project allegedly violated 172 years of legal protections and 4 Supreme Court rulings that preserved Grant Park "forever open, clear and free" as Montgomery Ward sought.suntimes.com, Commission votes 13-2 for Children's Museum Chicago alderman Brendan Reilly stated that the museum relocation to the lakefront park is a land grab.www.bnd.com, Planning board supports museum move--Florentino floro (talk) 10:53, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Change?

I think that seeing as the Obama event was an extremely big event in US/World history, I think it deserves its own section on the page. 74.220.66.75 (talk) 09:23, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Until reliable sources identify that Obama's event in Grant Park was notable enough for a special section, nope. -- The Red Pen of Doom 11:49, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

How about adding a "Major Events" section? — Lasse Havelund (p · t · c) 15:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

There is already a paragraph describing major events in the History section, if you feel that such a paragraph is substantial enough to warrant a call out in a subsection, I won't revert, but I dont feel it is necessary. -- The Red Pen of Doom 16:22, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Seriously? It was on every television network, it's in every newspaper...not enough reliable sources for you? 74.220.66.75 (talk) 15:26, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

So an event happened in a park? Big whoop. We state that the event happened there. Until this event has more effect on this park than an extra round of clean up today, there is no reason at all that it should have its own section in the article. Its not as if Obama was called up to heaven from this spot and now annual pilgrimages commemorate the occasion. -- The Red Pen of Doom 16:16, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

If you search "Grant Park" anywhere other than here you get wall-to-wall Obama. The simple fact is that, from a worldwide perspective, the most notable thing ever to have happened in GP was Obama's election-night speech. The rest of the world may have vaguely heard of the place before, but it became internationally famous only once and for only one reason. 91.106.103.18 (talk) 04:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:UNDUE, its still only a 1 evening event in the history of the park. -- The Red Pen of Doom 19:18, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

You don't need to be snotty...and I'm not saying that either, but it was the site of a major historical event... 74.220.66.75 (talk) 22:29, 5 November 2008 (UTC)