The space is relatively empty today, save for two picnic tables.
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The Summer Shade Festival returns to Grant Park for its 20th year — Music, art, beer galore this weekend
What began as a modest celebration with a few pizzas and a guitarist has since grown into a community-wide festival in the city’s oldest and fifth-largest park.
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Grant Park Conservancy releases conceptual plans for new Loomis Plaza
Spring cleaning is underway at Grant Park, the city’s oldest public greenspace, and the Grant Park Conservancy (GPC) team has plans to spruce up its northern entrance. GPC has drafted a proposal to renovate the park’s entrance by Sydney Street and Loomis Avenue, calling the new space Loomis Plaza. The proposed plans include a new […]
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Local Daffodil Project’s journey to plant 1.5 million daffodils honoring Holocaust victims
By Hannah E. Jones “How can anyone who remembers stay silent?” The 2004 quote from Holocaust survivor, activist and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel encapsulates the mission of the Atlanta-based Daffodil Project. The Daffodil Project is an international initiative to plant 1.5 million daffodils in remembrance of the children who lost their lives in the Holocaust. […]
