CHICAGO (WBBM/CBS 2) - The Chicago Children’s Museum is moving after all.
WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports.
After nearly three hours of debate, the Chicago City Council today gave its final approval to the controversial plan to relocate the Chicago Children’s Museum from Navy Pier to Grant Park.
The vote passed through the council at 33-16. However opposition leader, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42) promised a legal challenge.
Arguing for the Children’s Museum move to Grant Park, Mayor Daley says, simply, it’s the best place for it and the children.
Opponents say the law dictates that the park be kept free and clear.
Last week, planners unveiled the fifth redesign of the Chicago Children's Museum at Grant Park, which would total almost 100,000 square feet and would be built mostly underground at no cost to taxpayers.
Downtown Reilly and preservationists maintain it’s illegal for a new Children’s Museum to be built on land the courts say must be kept free and clear.
Mayor Daley and Chicago Children’s Museum officials say the current design is in keeping with those rulings. It would only take Reilly and one other Alderman to delay today’s vote.
A court fight is inevitable.
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