IN THE PRESS
DEVELOPERS, COMMUNITY GROUP FEUD OVER PULLMAN NATIONAL MONUMENT PLAN
“This project is completely and wholly unacceptable,” Cassello said. "If it does get built, it will be a brick-and-mortar monument to the failure of the National Park Service to protect the monument."
Chicago Tonight - October 28, 2016
'CONFUSION AT EVERY LEVEL' OF THE PARK SERVICE
A review team of Park Service officials from outside the [Effigy Mounds] monument’s region examined the defilement and pronounced themselves “astonished” in an “after action” report released last week...
The Washington Post - August 18, 2016
PLANS FOR HOUSING IN PULLMAN MONUMENT DRAW FIRE
A plan to develop...housing...the Pullman area...has run into opposition from a community group that says the project would violate rules governing the new Pullman National Monument.
Crain's Chicago Business - August 25, 2016
THOUGH OFTEN OVERLOOKED, LABOR DAY WAS BORN IN CHICAGO
"It's very cool to do it here [in Pullman]," Spivack said of the event. "We have this living monument. Thank God it's now being protected."
Chicago Tribune - September 5, 2016
NPS@100: SHIFT TO CULTURAL PARKS DESPITE THIN FUNDING STIRS CONTROVERSY
But NPS is saddled with a nearly $12 billion deferred maintenance backlog, including $4.3 billion for historic and prehistoric structures, cultural landscapes, and archaeological sites, records show.
E Publishing - August 2, 2016
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE
Their new center complex would obliterate the site of Beman’s original building, erase the architectural harmony of the original three building complex, and potentially cause irrevocable damage to the archaeological remains of the original site.
South Side Weekly - February 2, 2016
OBAMA DESIGNATES PULLMAN A NATIONAL MONUMENT
"Conservation is a truly American ideal," Obama said. "The naturalists and industrialists and politicians who dreamt up our system of public lands and waters did so in the hope that by keeping these...special places...where our history was written, then future generations would value those places the same way as we do."
NBC Chicago - February 19, 2015