Maggie Daley Park
| Maggie Daley Park | |
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Maggie Daley Park in December 2014
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| Type | Urban park |
| Location |
Grant Park 337 E. Randolph Street Chicago, Illinois 60601 |
| Coordinates | 41°52′57″N 87°37′08″W / 41.88250°N 87.61889°WCoordinates: 41°52′57″N 87°37′08″W / 41.88250°N 87.61889°W |
| Area | 25 acres (100,000 m2) |
| Created | 2012–2015 |
| Operated by | Chicago Park District |
| Status | Open all year (daily 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.) |
| Parking | Underground |
| Public transit access | Millennium Station |
| Website | www |
Maggie Daley Park is a 20-acre (81,000 m2) public park in the Loop community area of Chicago. It is near the Lake Michigan shoreline in northeastern Grant Park where Daley Bicentennial Plaza previously stood. Maggie Daley Park, like its predecessor, is connected to Millennium Park by the BP Pedestrian Bridge. Designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, the park had its ceremonial ribbon cutting on December 13, 2014, and is named for Maggie Daley, the former first lady of the city who died of cancer in 2011. The park was almost entirely remade with multiple new features including a new field house, an ice skating ribbon, climbing walls, landscaping and children's playground. A garden honors cancer survivors. It is bounded by Randolph Street, Monroe, Columbus and Lake Shore Drives. Construction took 2 years and cost $60 million, including rebuilding an underground parking lot.
On August 26, 2012, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced plans for the park where a hotly contested children's museum plan had previously been attempted. In 2008, the Chicago City Council had approved a $100 million plan to build the Chicago Children's Museum on the space, but legal contentions were expected to drag on regarding the use of parkland for such a structure.
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