Could a 20,000-seat Olympic field hockey arena really leave Jackson Park unspoiled?
By Ben Joravsky A couple weeks ago Mayor Daley took his Olympics dog-and-pony show to the Walt Disney Magnet School on the north side, far from the south-side neighborhood parks that will be overtaken if his plans for the 2016 games go through. As PR spectacles go, it was pretty impressive. The stage was filled with Olympic stars. The auditorium was packed with kids hoped-up to be out of class and eager to cheer on cue for the TV cameras. The event’s ostensible purpose was to unveil the city’s new Olympic logo. But its larger goal was to send the message that Chicagoans, like Disney’s giddy students, are jazzed up about bringing the games to town. Of course, the public’s attitude towards the games is a lot more complicated. If you walk through Washington Park on a Sunday afternoon and ask the softball and tennis players and joggers and sunbathers what they think about the games, you’ll get a chorus of jeers. As they see it, just about the only thing the games will do is turn their park
By Ben Joravsky A couple weeks ago Mayor Daley took his Olympics dog-and-pony show to the Walt Disney Magnet School on the north side, far from the south-side neighborhood parks that will be overtaken if his plans for the 2016 games go through. As PR spectacles go, it was pretty impressive. The stage was filled with Olympic stars. The auditorium was packed with kids hoped-up to be out of class and eager to cheer on cue for the TV cameras. The event’s ostensible purpose was to unveil the city’s new Olympic logo. But its larger goal was to send the message that Chicagoans, like Disney’s giddy students, are jazzed up about bringing the games to town. Of course, the public’s attitude towards the games is a lot more complicated. If you walk through Washington Park on a Sunday afternoon and ask the softball and tennis players and joggers and sunbathers what they think about the games, you’ll get a chorus of jeers. As they see it, just about the only thing the games will do is turn their park
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