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Despite its wealth of parks and lakefront, Chicago is still deficient in protecting its natural treasures. Can anyone imagine New York City’s residents and newspapers being quiescent about a proposal to put a three-story underground garage in Central Park?
That is what is happening to the plan of the Museum of Science and Industry to convert a major portion of the 1893 Columbian Exposition site in Jackson Park to its own uses, financed by $40 million in public money.
Civic groups and public officials have been alerted to the dangers but choose to remain quiet due to pressures of the “employment” lobby, including political contractors.
