The alarming misinformation marketing campaign surrounding the Jackson Park/South Shore Golf Course should be addressed.
A current letter within the Chicago Sun-Times noting the 114-year-old South Shore Golf Course will turn out to be an expensive course below the proposed plan is one other misguided try to discourage progress and growth.
The Chicago Park District will proceed to personal and handle the South Shore Cultural Center and golf programs. All Chicagoans are welcome to make use of the services, however why anybody suggests kids “play ball” aside from golf on a golf course is asinine.
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There are playgrounds and fields all through the parks to accommodate kids enjoying ball, however sadly stray bullets are the first concern for folks at this time. It’s not the identical surroundings and mindset we grew up with 40 years in the past.
Proven info and knowledge attest to scholarships, careers and financial growth by way of golf, as effectively the hundreds of thousands in charitable causes raised by the PGA Tour. Moreover, we applaud the efforts of fifth Ward Ald. Leslie Hairston to revitalize the neighborhood, notably 71st Street, which as soon as was the “South Side Magnificent Mile.”
We are avid newbie golfers, our kids are golfers, and we’ve numerous family and friends which are newbie golfers. Many of us benefit from the sport as a result of golf connects us with nature, permits us to stroll miles boosting train, promotes networking and, when relevant, helps help caddying, employment and scholarship alternatives for juniors.
We, golfers, are literally contributing to financial growth versus stifling it by paying our greens charges and supporting concessions on the golf programs – all rising income for the Park District.
It’s time to advertise a sport that may be performed from toddler to elder, with a profession path for youngsters past basketball, baseball, soccer and soccer — with fewer bodily penalties!
It’s time to finish the misinformation marketing campaign that the character sanctuary will likely be destroyed. Golf might be the one sport that epitomizes the symbiotic relationship with nature. It creates “nature sanctuaries!”
It’s time to emphasise that golf is a recreation for all, not solely the privileged few. Diverse city communities, significantly African American youth on Chicago’s South Side, can profit from publicity to the sport, and we’re wanting to extol its virtues.
It’s time to be grateful and notice the golf course enhancements will likely be funded by non-public charitable donations, not taxpayers!
It’s time to revitalize Chicago’s South Side and make investments in the neighborhood’s kids, elders, working-class (golf programs want staff) and security!
Tracy Raoul
Jackson Park Golf Association
Mayor Lightfoot has allow us to down
It didn’t take lengthy for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to turn out to be a typical Chicago politician.
She went on trip to Maine earlier than the tip of her first 100 days.
The mayor additionally ordered a renovation of her workplace with $220,000 from the tax increment financing piggybank, with non-public contractors doing the job. This from the mayor whose metropolis is going through an $800-million-plus price range deficit.
Even earlier than Lightfoot was sworn in, she reversed her pre-election objections to the $2 billion in TIF taxpayer cash to assist wealthy builders create the “Lincoln Yards” and “78” tasks, which shouldn’t even qualify for these funds below provisions of the state TIF statute.
Lightfoot additionally reneged on guarantees to extend funding for the homeless.
Brian Owen, East Rogers Park