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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

Kriston Capps of Citylab bemoans the giveaway of historic parkland. His understanding of the issues, though, is curious:

Washington Park is considered one of Olmsted’s four complete masterpieces, along with Central Park and Prospect Park in New York and Franklin Park in Boston. Any presidential library would be glad to have one of them as a front yard. But to plant such a facility in Central Park, Prospect Park, or Franklin Park—to even propose it—would raise howls of protest. Washington Park is no less sacred, but it’s located on Chicago’s South Side, a place with less social and political power than the others.

This completely overlooks the fact that it was the South Side "Bring It Home" faction who would have no dissent from outsiders worried about historic parks, and told anyone who raised such a concern to get their white asses back to the North Side.

But the library won't be in Washington Park. It'll be one mile east in Jackson Park.