2023 municipal candidate survey
For Chicago's 2023 municipal elections, Friends of the Parks sent a questionnaire to all candidates running for mayor and alderperson. We are a non-partisan organization. We don’t endorse candidates. But we did want to use this opportunity to both educate the mayoral and alderperson candidates about park issues and give them a chance to communicate whether and how they plan to promote healthy parks for a healthy Chicago.
To see who had replied as of February 3rd, visit this page. Candidate Responses
Although the deadline by which we asked candidates to respond has past, we will continue to accept and post the surveys to our website.
We invite you to continue amplifying these questionnaires!
You can contribute to the cause by:
Please email us if you are working with a PAC or community group to share the questionnaire with candidates so we can track its use. Click here for more information and pdfs of the surveys to share
To see who had replied as of February 3rd, visit this page. Candidate Responses
Although the deadline by which we asked candidates to respond has past, we will continue to accept and post the surveys to our website.
We invite you to continue amplifying these questionnaires!
You can contribute to the cause by:
- asking candidates to complete the questionnaire;
- bringing up items from the questionnaire at candidate forums;
- informing us of forums happening in your ward;
- getting your PAC or a community group to send out a questionnaire to candidates in your ward;
- having your PAC host a forum with candidates and raise up park issues;
- sharing the materials with other folks you know.
Please email us if you are working with a PAC or community group to share the questionnaire with candidates so we can track its use. Click here for more information and pdfs of the surveys to share
Our Response to Building Construction in Humboldt Park
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In the fall of 2023, unauthorized construction began on a new building in Humboldt Park, as part of an expansion to the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Click here for Executive Director Juanita Irizarry's December 14, 2022 letter to the Chicago Park District. Click here for reflections on the messiness of democracy.
Click here for in-depth piece published in the Chicago Reader Jan. 11, 2023. "Juanita Irizarry delivered a gut punch of a speech at the December 14 meeting of the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners. You could say she hit it out of the park. That’s hard to pull off when you’ve only got two minutes to make your case. But Irizarry, speaking as executive director of Friends of the Parks, also spoke from the heart. In the scant time allotted members of the public to comment, she took a clearly painful stand. . . " |
Photo Credit: Mina Bloom, Block Club Chicago
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OUR UPDATESFRIENDS OF THE PARKS STATEMENT REGARDING THE SUPREME COURT REJECTION OF PROTECT OUR PARKS’ PETITION TO STOP CONSTRUCTION OF OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER
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