2011 Season Calendar
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Day
Date
Time
Location
Event
Mon.
March 14
6pm
Altgeld Park Fieldhouse
Opening Coaches' Meeting
Mon.
April 25
6pm
Altgeld Park Fieldhouse
Coaches' Meeting
Sat.
April 30
10am-12
Livingston
Open BB Sign-Up & Practice 8-10 & 10-12
Sat.
April 30
6pm
Livingston
Equipment & Softball Uniforms Distribution
Sat.
May 7
10am
Varies
8-11 and 11-14 Softball Season begins
Sat.
May 7
10am-12
Livingston
Open BB Sign-Up & Practice 8-10 & 10-12
Sat.
May 14
10am-12
Livingston
Open BB Sign-Up & Practice 8-10 & 10-12
Mon.
May 16
6pm
Altgeld Park Fieldhouse
Mandatory Coaches' Meeting and Baseball Uniforms Distribution
Sat.
June 4
9am
Livingston
Opening Day Ceremony and Baseball and T-Ball Games Begin
Sat.
June 4
To Mike
Varies
Team Rosters Due
Mon.
July 4
All Day
Livingston
Family Community Picnic (Bring items)
UPDATE as of June, 2009: Thanks to the tremendous support from Mayor Daley, his Department of Planning and Development, and his Chicago Park District, along with Aldermen Danny Solis (25th), Bob Fioretti (2nd), Walter Burnett (27th), and Ed Smith (28th), Livingston Field was dedicated as a City park on Opening Day. NWLL had pleaded its case to the IMDC at quarterly meetings for the last four years and even filed a lawsuit against them for lack of open meetings and disclosure. The City had to sacrifice other public land in exchange for the Park. Recent IMDC leadership neglected the City's local partnership and posted signs on two fences (shown below) for the last two years stating their intention to unneccesarily build on the site and destroy our field of dreams, which has been a great community asset and green space for 15 years. Good government matters, and the IMDC must be accountable to community oversight! 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
/s/ Robert W. Fioretti
/s/ Walter Burnett, Jr.