Everything about Dusable Park Chicago totally explained
DuSable Park is an
urban park (3.24 acres) in
Chicago,
Illinois currently awaiting
redevelopment. It was originally announced in 1987 by then
Mayor Harold Washington. The park is to be named after
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, the first non-native
settler of Chicago.
Location
The park would be located directly east of North
Lake Shore Drive and southwest of
Navy Pier with
Lake Michigan to its east. To its north would be the Ogden Slip and to its south would be the
Chicago River. The
Chicago Spire is under construction just west of DuSable Park.
History
Formation
Following the construction of the original
jetty for the
Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, lake currents were affected and soil was deposited at the area now known as DuSable Park. In 1857 the
State of Illinois sold 40 acres, including the site later to be known as DuSable Park, to the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust. In 1948 the Chicago Plan Commission passed a resolution excluding use of lakefront property to only recreation or for harbor or termail facilities for passenger and freight vessels.
A new DuSable Park
In July of 2005 Christopher Carley of the Fordham Company announced a new development project called the Fordham Spire. The Fordham Company pledged nearly $500,000 to assist in the development of the park, which was to adjoin the site of their new tower. In March of 2007 Shelbourne Development, the new development company which renamed the adjancent project
Chicago Spire, offered $6 million to finish the development of DuSable Park. In early May of the same year, that offer jumped to $9.6 million. Shelbourne offered their own design of the park which included a northbound ramp onto Lake Shore Drive for the adjacent Chicago Spire. From 1904 through 1936, the Lindsay Light Company processed
ores which contained thorium to manufacture thorium impregnated
gas mantles. It was suspected that after the plant closed, contaminated soil was dumped on the location of the proposed park. It has been reported that Shelbourne Development will soon be taking soil samples to determine the severity of the radioactive contamination.
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