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Originally Posted by sentinel
My only gripe with the design is why have the Crescent park in the middle?
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reread ardecila's post.
the crescent park is located where it is because that's where the shitty unbuildable back-filled soil from the old river channel is.
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Originally Posted by ardecila
I’ve mentioned before that the park solves a very specific issue - when the city backfilled the original river channel in the 1920s, they literally filled it with garbage. The soil is terrible quality, poorly compacted and not at all suited to building foundations without a lot of expensive remediation.
This site plan kills two birds with one stone by setting that land aside as park space and building densely in the areas where soil is good.
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this old picture from the south branch straightening will hopefully let you understand it better.
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https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago...-chicago-river