Press kit, May 26, 2022

This press conference will be held at the Experimental Station, 6100 South Blackstone Avenue, Chicago. The event will start promptly at 4:00pm, run one hour and will be recorded.

​Here is the list of speakers:

• Jack Spicer, president and co-founder of Promontory Point Conservancy
  • Spicer will read U.S. Congresswoman Robin Kelly’s, IL 2nd District, press release about a preferred preservation study and a statement about preservation at Promontory Point, and PPC’s response and own press release
• Chief of Staff, Alexandra Desrosiers and Outreach Coordinator, Maya Rodriguez read State Senator Robert Peters’ statement, 13th District
• State Representative Curtis Tarver III, 25th District
• Cook County Commissioner Bill Lowry, 13th District
• Alderman Leslie Hairston, 5th Ward
• Woodlawn resident reads statement from Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, 20th Ward
• Mila Marshall, Clear Water Advocate, Sierra Club
• Charles Shabica, marine engineer and contributor to 2004 Kalven Mediation Report
• Bronwyn Nichols Lodato, park equity advocate
• Ward Miller, executive director, Preservation Chicago
• Jessica Stockholder, professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
• Jamie Kalven, journalist, Invisible Institute and author of 2004 Kalven Mediation Report
• Ruth Knack, journalist, board Hyde Park Historical Society and long time Point lover
• Jennefer Rossi, Swimmers for the Point
• Flora and Kestrel Green, Kids for the Point, last but not least!!!
• Elee, Bourbon & Bonfire community group