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		<title>Lincoln Park should still be public in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve upgraded our blog to Wordpress, and we&#8217;re moving all of the old content over. We&#8217;re still in the good fight, so please, your contribution can help out immeasurably. Please click the donate button!
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		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2010/01/22/lincoln-park-should-still-be-public-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Local News Investigates Artificial Turf</title>
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		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/11/23/local-news-investigates-artificial-turf/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Turf War&#8221; Feature in Chicago Magazine</title>
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Chicago Magazine reporter Debra Pickett spent hours interviewing POP members and researching the series of events that led up to the Latin School Lincoln Park land grab. Her story is a fair account and asks the question we’ve been asking – who wins from a fight like this? Read the story
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		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/11/20/turf-war-feature-in-chicago-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Artificial Turf Field Opens, Rule of Law and Safety Be D**ned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Concerned Citizen,
Over objections of Protect Our Parks, POP, the Park District has steamrollered an artificial turf soccer field into existence in Lincoln Park. The location was selected to benefit its original sponsor, the Latin School. Construction was sped up before the pending POP lawsuit could be heard.
Our suit asked that construction or use of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/11/12/artificial-turf-field-opens-rule-of-law-and-safety-be-d-ned/</link>
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		<title>POP Proposes Independent Testing of Artificial Turf Safety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to Legal Counsels representing the Park District and the City, defendants in POP&#8217;s pending lawsuit challenging the safety of artificial turf in the south field of Lincoln Park, POP urges that in the interest of public health and safety concerns the defendants agree to expedited testing by an impartial public health agency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/11/05/pop-proposes-independent-testing-of-artificial-turf-safety/</link>
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		<title>Toxic artificial turf a hazard to Latin School children and the public alleges latest lawsuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Park District and Latin School have been sued again by Protect Our Parks, POP, the neighborhood park watchdog organization fighting construction of the Latin School artificial turf soccer field in the formerly open, grassy meadow of South Field Lincoln Park at the foot of the bridge crossing Lake Shore Drive to North Avenue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/10/15/toxic-artificial-turf-a-hazard-to-latin-school-children-and-the-public-alleges-latest-lawsuit/</link>
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		<title>New Lawsuit Challenges Park Payment to Latin School &#8211; Oops, Too Late!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The law suit proved too late as the Park District has already secretly paid the Latin School back, despite a court settlement mandating public disclosure! Will the law breaking and arrogance at the Chicago Park District ever stop?
Our reaction:
The Park District performed one of its trademark slight of hand tricks on September 23 in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/09/23/new-lawsuit-challenges-park-payment-to-latin-school/</link>
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		<title>The End of Chapter One&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Park District has spoken. At a special session of the board called solely to deal with the Latin School soccer field, commissioners unanimously voted to complete the soccer facility in Lincoln Park and repay the Latin School for its construction costs.  WE MUST NOTE THAT THE DECISION TO REPAY THE LATINS SCHOOL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/09/06/the-end-of-chapter-one/</link>
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		<title>Play Our New PSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen to our new public service announcement.
 
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		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/08/24/play-our-new-psa/</link>
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		<title>PLAN COMMISSION RUBBER STAMPS, AS EXPECTED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Plan Commission met on Thursday, August 21 at City Hall and unanimously approved the Latin School artificial turf soccer facility in Lincoln Park.
Members of POP testified that no site plans, no environmental studies, no engineering studies and no marketing studies were done before construction because the project was the result of a secret [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cklpp.org/2008/08/06/calling-all-park-champions-aug-21-city-hall/</link>
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