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The Chicago Park District received its biggest haul yet last year from the organizers of Lollapalooza, who paid $9.6 million in fees to use Grant Park for the annual four-day music festival. The boosted revenue for the Park District was mostly expected: This was the first year under a new contract that allowed festival organizers C3 Presents to sell tickets to 15,000 additional attendees per ...
A quartet of clown eggs and large blue heron have vanished from their posts in Nichols Park.
Park advocates, residents and politicians have raised $710,000 for a remodel and want the Park District to chip in funding to make the project a reality.
After a hot and crowded Labor Day along Chicago’s lakefront, emergency responders worked double time in rescue and recovery efforts at the lake, pulling two bodies and a woman in critical condition from Lake Michigan over a 24-hour period, authorities said. Another person was still missing as of Tuesday afternoon. The Chicago Fire Department called off rescue efforts after searching for more ...
The “club” started with a couple of young professionals jumping into the lake at Montrose Harbor to start off their busy weekends. Hundreds, then thousands, of young folks started joining them. Then the Park District weighed in.