Advocacy
Advocacy for Chicago’s Parks and Preserves
Advocacy is one of the most important components of Friends of the Parks mission to protect, preserve, improve and increase the use of parks and preserves. Friends of the Parks works to review all major city and county proposals that impact our parks and preserves and develops a strategy to support, modify or, in some cases, oppose projects that would be harmful to parks or preserves.
Parkland in Illinois is dedicated in trust for the enjoyment and benefit of the public. Friends of the Parks’ advocacy work, a.k.a., Public Trust and Policy Program, works to shape public policy to protect, expand and connect Chicago’s scarce public park lands, including neighborhood parks and the lakefront. This program seeks to assure responsible stewardship by the governmental bodies entrusted with the preservation and management of these public lands, as well as to promote citizen involvement in decisions affecting Chicago’s parks.
