Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Planners Out to Isolate Lake Shore Dr.

A few weeks ago, several adults stood in front of the SheddAquarium, closed their eyes and listened.

"We were bombarded by the noise of cars rushing past," saidErma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks.

Tranter and her companions were not playing children's games.They and others in the 44-member Burnham Park Task Force, a groupthat includes aldermen, government officials and civic activists,were exploring ways to reshape Lake Shore Drive to create a "campus"for the aquarium, the Adler Planetarium and the Field Museum.

Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, the man entrusted withdeveloping a campus plan, was their guide in a two-day …

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