from today's Chicago Tribune (5/15):
Plan Commission meeting on Children's Museum expected to be emotional
Children's Museum plan on city panel's agenda
By Hal Dardick and Noreen Ahmed-Ullah
May 15, 2008
"Critics and backers predicted the plan to put the Chicago Children's Museum in Grant Park would be endorsed Thursday by the city's Plan Commission—but only after a lengthy, contentious hearing that could highlight the links between museum backers, panel members and Mayor Richard Daley.
The mayor is the project's most powerful supporter, and he selects the 20-member panel. In addition to the mayor, it includes six aldermen who typically back the mayor's initiatives, two Daley cabinet members, another mayoral aide, a top transit official appointed by Daley who sits on the museum's board and a community activist whose organization has been supportive of the proposal." ...
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