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Detroit Summer is a multi-racial and intergenerational collective based at The Boggs Center in Detroit, Michigan, with the goal to empower local youth to improve their communities. The program was founded in 1992 by James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Shea Howell, and others. [1] [2] This also coincided with the founding of the Boggs Center. [3]
Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre (223.2 ha) urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. Straddling the Hyde Park , Woodlawn , and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition .
Belle Isle State Park is a 982-acre (397 ha) island state park in the Detroit River, home to the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, the Detroit Yacht Club, the Detroit Boat Club, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, a Coast Guard post, and a golf course. Until its November 2013 conversion to a state park, it was largest island city park in the ...
Millennium Park: Chicago Loop: 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) Chicago's newest marquee park, opened in 2004, just north of the Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Washington Park: Washington Park: 346 acres (140 ha) Located on the south side; the proposed location for the 2016 Summer Olympics Stadium
One of Detroit's parks — where a new, state-of-the-art community center opened last fall — is closing for the majority of the year. Jefferson Chalmers' A.B. Ford Park is closed until September ...
The wait for Detroit's newest slide is proving to be more and more unbearable. The 20-foot slide shaped like a brown bear is a part of the new 22-acre Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park at West ...
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The Detroit Historic District Commission approved the continued construction of the Schaap Center for Performing Arts 6-0. Controversial arts center, dividing Detroit and Grosse Pointe Park, gets ...