The Discipline Museum and Soldier Discipline on Aug. 18, 2015.
With Soldier Discipline’s future up within the air because the Chicago Bears eye doubtlessly greener suburban pastures, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has empaneled a gaggle to suggest methods to enhance the lakefront Museum Campus.
The 23-member working group will set out “to reimagine the Museum Campus expertise concentrating on year-round tourism and activation on the campus,” in response to Lightfoot’s workplace.
Along with Soldier Discipline, the 57-acre campus additionally contains the Adler Planetarium, the Discipline Museum, the Shedd Aquarium and the McCormick Place lakefront constructing. The twelfth Road Seaside and Northerly Island are additionally within the combine.
But it surely’s clearly the long-lasting soccer stadium that may draw many of the public curiosity as Lightfoot prepares for the risk the Bears will decamp to Arlington Heights to construct a fancy on the positioning of the Arlington Park racetrack.
Whereas she tries to find out if it’s attainable to maintain the crew in Chicago, the mayor additionally wants to organize for a post-Bears future on the lakefront so she will current a forward-looking plan to attempt to defray the lack of income and civic status in the event that they go away.
With apologies to the Chicago Fireplace, it’s unlikely town might actually substitute the Bears at Soldier Discipline, so tasking the working group with reimagining your entire lakefront campus offers Lightfoot an opportunity to recast the dialogue to take a look at the broader query of revitalizing tourism post-pandemic.
“The Museum Campus is an integral a part of Chicago and an enormous contributor to our metropolis’s tradition and economic system,” Lightfoot stated in an announcement. “To be able to maximize the advantages of its useful belongings, in addition to deal with bigger points concerning the campus, suggestions from devoted and gifted group leaders are completely vital.”
The working group can be chaired by Richard Worth, chairman and CEO of Mesirow monetary companies. And it'll characteristic a cross-section of heavyweights within the metropolis’s enterprise and cultural spheres.