WC Chicago Tribune, Friday, January 24, 1997 Section 2 5 2 plans may ease Lincoln Park parking woesf Nuns decide to let a lay board take over Academy of Our Lady recent proposal mirrors a plan; that has been talked about for! years. The proposed garage, which'2 would provide as many as 300 parking spaces, would be on Chi- cago Park District land now occu- pied by a metered parking lot "The Park District has seen the plan and is very supportive of it. And the mayor has seen it," Ber- nardini said. He said an unre- solved issue is the funding of the estimated $800,000 museum park- ing garage. By Jacquelyn Heard Tribune Staff Writer Faced with the growing problem of too few parking spaces in heavily traveled neighborhoods, Chicago officials are considering proposals to build parking garages serving a fitness center, a museum and a hotel in Lincoln Park.
According to Aid. Charles Ber-nardini (43rd), whose ward includes the busy Lincoln Park community, officials at the Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N. Clark want to build an underground parking garage on Clark Street and LaSalle Drive and officials at Lehmann Sports Club, 2700 N. Lehmann have pro posed building a 6-story garage on Lehmann. Under plans submitted to Ber-nardini's office, the fitness center would team with the nearby Comfort Inn, 601 W.
Diversey to finance construction of the garage. Bernardini said officials from the museum and the fitness center only recently began discussions with his office, and neither of the proposals has been put before the community for discussion. But Bernardini called the plans "feasible" because they come with assurances that the garages will be "economically viable" during the day. "I've been throughout this ward talking about parking and the idea of parking garages," said Bernardini, who recently has been considering whether to establish permit parking along Halsted Street in his ward. Residents want it Store owners don't "The problem is that most of the crowding in this area occurs at night and people aren't willing to support a parking garage unless there is a clear indication that there would be good use of it during the day," he said.
"These plans are really exciting because they come at a time when the city is faced with very serious parking problems." Chicago Historical Society officials could not be reached for comment. Bernardini said the museum's tuition dollars decline, Sarther said. The sisters have raised $105,000 from alumni and community contributions and hope to bring in $250,000 by the time the new board takes over, Sarther said. The academy also might get revenue from a lease with a charter school. The Chicago Public Schools' board has approved the Academy of Communications and Technology, a proposed kindergarten-through-12th-grade school that would be in a vacant part of Longwood.
The Illinois State Board of Education must still approve the charter school. The fitness center's proposed garage would include 173 parking spaces and replace an existing 45-space parking lot on Lehmann Court. Neither hotel nor fitness i i center officials could be reached i for comment. By Meg McSherry Breslin Tribune Staff Writer After 123 years, the religious order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame has decided it can no longer afford to run the Academy of Our Lady High School on the city's South Side. Faced with a $250,000 deficit, the sisters plan to turn the school over to a lay governing board by July, Sister Catherine Sarther, the order's provincial leader, said Thursday.
Sarther said she is confident the lay board will help keep the school alive. The new board is being formed and will include several nuns, alumni, parents and community leaders, she said. "We are very confident that the school will be continuing, and we're very committed to having it continue," she said. The Academy of Our Lady, also known as Longwood, opened in 1874 at 1309 W. 95th St.
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