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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Fran Spielman

Museum Campus improvements make sense whether Bears stay or not, parks advocate says

Aerial view of Soldier Field, Burnham Harbor and the lakefront. (Sun-Times file)

There’s “not a lot of hope” that Chicago can keep the Bears — even at a domed Soldier Field — but a new “vision” to re-imagine the museum campus can still reclaim parkland and make Northerly Island the nature preserve it was intended to be, a parks advocate said Tuesday.

Friends of the Parks Executive Director Juanita Irizarry served on the 23-member working group that unveiled its ambitious, 50-page plan last week.

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