“This is an action to enjoin a contrived collaboration involving the City of Chicago and the Chicago Park District in which the Park District deceptively transfers unique historic Jackson Park public park land to the City of Chicago for token payment $1.00. The sole purpose of transfer so that the City may then convey the land to a private entity, the Obama Foundation (the ‘Foundation’), a not for profit Washington, DC corporation, for the Foundation’s independently determined use. The attempted ‘sale’ of this much used, enjoyed, and locally needed open, clear and free recreational public land is in violation of the relevant controlling statutes; and upon objective examination is openly exposed to be by design, a conscious scheme to negate these existing protective laws.”
*wow, wow, wow, wow!, i'm so excited to read this, i had to post before finishing the article! the fight to save our park, and much more, our neighborhood, and a whole swathe of neighborhoods in the sights of the powerful apex real estate predators. even if it's hopeless i'm so happy someone is taking up the good fight against the land grab.
The lawsuit is about stopping the Obama Presidential Center on 20 acres of prime, open Jackson Park land,” said Protect our Parks’ attorney Mark Roth in a statement to the Herald. “Under the law, the Park District may not convey the land to the private Obama Foundation. So, in an effort to get around that law, the Park District first conveys the property to the City, and the City then conveys to the Obama Foundation.”
Roth said that the Park District cannot convey parkland to the City for any reason other than the City’s use. That the municipal government conveys control of the land to the Obama Foundation is against existing statutes, he said. Far from the Obama Foundation paying just compensation for the land, Roth estimated that the cost to taxpayers would be in excess of $500,000,000.
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