Chicago Children's Museum in Grant Park
Friends of Downtown opposes, as a matter of principle, relocation of the Chicago Children's Museum into Grant Park, land set aside by Chicago's founders as a park that is forever free, open and clear of any buildings whatever. Click here to read our position statement.

Central Area Action Plan
A February 2007 Brown Bag Luncheon discussed the Central Area Action Plan, an ongoing effort to update priorities and projects in the 2002 Central Area Plan. See the presentation slides here (1.2MB PDF).

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The Future of Wabash Avenue
Friends of Downtown held a forum on October 10, 2006, to look at the changing uses and streetscape of Wabash Avenue between the Chicago River and Roosevelt Road. These two handouts were distributed to attendees:

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Creating a Vision for Congress Parkway
In June 2003, Friends of Downtown held a charrette to spur ideas about how to improve Congress Parkway. The report of that workshop is available as a (rather large) PDF:
Creating a Vision for Congress Parkway