
Debra Hammond
Press kit, May 26, 2022
Updated: May 25
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