Near West Little League

2009 Season Calendar
Rain-Outs, Postponements, and Schedule Changes
should be approved by Commissioner Mike Julian

Day	Date	Time	Location	Event
Mon.	March 30	6pm	Altgeld	Opening Coaches' Meeting
Mon.	April 13	6pm	Altgeld	Coaches' Meeting
Mon.	April 20 & later	Call Mike	Storage Garage	Equipment Available
Sat.	May 2	10am	Varies	Softball Pre-Season begins
Mon.	May 4 & later	Call Mike	Storage Garage	Uniforms Available
Wed.	May 13	6pm	Altgeld	Boys Baseball Coaches' Meeting
Sat.	May 16	10am-4pm	Livingston	Registration Blitz Day/ Softball Regular Season Begins
Sat.-Fri.	May 16-June 5	Varies	Altgeld & Livingston	Baseball Pre-Season Games
Sat.	May 30	9-11am	Livingston Field	T-Ball Begins
Thurs.	June 4	6pm	Altgeld	Final Coaches' Meeting (tentative) plus Schedule Distrib.
Sat.	June 6	10am	Livingston	Opening Day with Mayor Daley and Sec. of State White (see home page)/ Baseball Regular Season begins
Sat.	July 4	All Day	Livingston	Family Community Picnic (Bring items)
Sat.-Sat.	July 11-18	Varies	Livingston and Skinner	Girls Play-offs & World Series– check Schedule
Sat.-Mon.	July 25-27	Varies	Livingston and Altgeld	Boys Play-offs begin– check Schedule
Thur.-Sat.	July 30-Aug. 1	Varies	Livingston and Altgeld	Boys World Series– check Schedule
Sat.	Aug. 8	6-7:30	Chicago Hope Academy	Awards Cere-mony & Dinner (Return jerseys & equipment)
Fri.-Sun.	Aug. 7-9	Varies	Altgeld & Livingston	Boys 13-14 Annual August Tournament
Sat.	Aug. 29	9-11:15	Livingston	Final T-Ball & Picnic (Return jerseys)

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 accountability 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:

Sun-Times
–NEW August update
Chicago Journal (plus editorial)
–NEW August update and Editorial
Near West Gazette (plus editorial)
Chicago Reader