Chicago advocacy groups continue to fight the removal of trees in Jackson Park.
of the Jackson Park Golf Course mean losing the South Shore Nature Sanctuary and all of the trees in it., all these trees, for the most part, will be gone," Hoyt said.That is why she and others have been fighting - delivering a number of petitions with hundreds of signatures to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
The ask is"to put a referendum on the ballot in three precincts in the 5th Ward" for the upcoming election in June, said Marc Lipinski of Southsiders for Trees. "Chicago residents should have the opportunity to say, in an open forum, whether the clear cutting of 1,000 more trees is a good idea," Lipinski said.
We reached the Chicago Park District with all of this – including a claim on Twitter that the Jackson Park Golf Course plan will involve cutting down 2,106 more trees in Jackson Park and South Shore Nature Sanctuary – on top of 865 trees that will be cut for the Obama Center.
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