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2010 Season Calendar Rain-Outs, Postponements, and Schedule Changes should be approved by Comm./Pres. Mike Julian
On May 20, 2009 the City Council approved the acquistion of Livingston Field as Livingston Park from IMD, though sadly at the expense of trading other land. On July 19, 2007, the City Council (sponsors Ald. Burnett, Ald. Fioretti, and Ald. Solis) and Mayor Daley unanimously passed a resolution urging the IMDC to keep Livingston Park a baseball field, and we deeply thank them for their official support! Without their long-term devotion, the Park and NWLL would have been bulldozed and pushed aside by the IMDC. NWLL strongly condemned IMDC's self-serving position.Here are some summer 2007 articles:
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SALUTE TO LIVINGSTON FIELD WHEREAS, Livingston Park, located at the intersection of Polk and Leavitt Streets, is a neighborhood baseball field, that welcomes hundreds of children each year and provides them with the opportunity to participate on a team and play baseball as well as develop their social and physical skills; and WHEREAS, Little League Baseball started in 1995 at Livingston Park with the assistance of the Illinois Medical District and local residents in the neighborhood. The park was named after former Illinois Medical District commissioner, David Livingston; and WHEREAS, Livingston Park is utilized by the Near West Little League, the largest Little League in the City of Chicago, and contains 42 baseball teams with over 600 children taking part. Near West Side residents Bob and Tina Muzikowski founded the Near West Little League in an effort to serve children in the Cabrini Green Housing Projects. This league has won two awards including the Points of Lights Award from former President George H. W. Bush as well as the Youth Services Award from the city's Department of Housing and Urban Development; and WHEREAS, Livingston Park is a wonderful tool for the community children. With two baseball diamonds at the park, local children are welcomed and united in a safe environment that allows them to release energy and have fun. It would be a tremendous loss to the community if this park was destroyed to construct a life sciences and biotechnology center in its place; and WHEREAS, More than $200,000 has been spent on the field, and Mayor Richard M. Daley, Secretary of State Jesse White, The Honorable Daniel S. Solis, Alderman of the 25th Ward, The Honorable Robert W. Fioretti, Alderman of the 2nd Ward and The Honorable Walter Burnett, Jr., Alderman of the 27th Ward have signed petitions to keep the ballpark open; now, therefore, Be It Resolved, That we, the Mayor and members of the City Council of the City of Chicago, gathered here this nineteenth day of July, 2007 A.D., do hereby urge the Illinois Medical District to find another site for the construction of the life sciences and biotechnology research and development center and to allow the residents of this grateful community the enjoyment of the tremendous contributions offered by Livingston Park. /s/ Daniel S. Solis |
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