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margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>From airport to wetlands
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
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margin-left:0in;background:white'><b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>S.E. SIDE | <st1:place
w:st="on">Calumet</st1:place> nature area once tagged for 3rd field to be
expanded <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
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Arial;color:#5F5F5F;font-weight:bold'>September 23, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white'><b><font
size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>BY <a href="mailto:agolab@suntimes.com">ART GOLAB</a> Staff Reporter
agolab@suntimes.com <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white'><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Seventeen years ago,
Mayor Daley wanted to pave over wetlands on the Southeast Side to make way for
a third airport. But on Saturday, he announced that the city would spend more
than $2 million to help restore and expand wetlands in the same area. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The new effort will make up for
wetlands that will be destroyed in the ongoing O'Hare Airport expansion. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"The O'Hare modernization
program is contributing toward wetlands development in the Calumet region as
part of its program to leave northeastern <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:State> with more wetlands than it had
before the O'Hare project began," said the mayor. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>At a news conference near the <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Hyde</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType>
wetlands near <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">127th Street</st1:address></st1:Street>
and <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Carondolet Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>,
the mayor and other city officials outlined a plan that will add 15 acres of
wetlands either to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hyde</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> or nearby Heron
Pond. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Work to begin next year<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white'><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The 36-acre Heron
Pond, located along the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Calumet</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, is home to one of
the state's largest rookeries of black-crowned night herons, a state-endangered
species. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An environmental study will determine
which area will be restored, with restoration work beginning sometime next
year. Also, an environmental center is scheduled to be built in the area by
2009. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The newly restored wetlands will be
of a higher quality than the ones being filled in because of the O'Hare
project, according to Alan Mammoser, executive director of the Southeast
Environmental Task Force. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The two city-owned sites are parts of
the Calumet Initiative, which designated 3,900 acres for open space and 3,000
acres for economic development. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white'><b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>'You don't forget it'<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:3.0pt;background:white'><font size=1
face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Asked about his
earlier efforts to put an airport on the Southeast Side, the mayor said,
"That's why you're flexible. When they didn't want it and the governor
pulled the issue, then you modernize O'Hare Airport." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0in;background:white'><font size=1 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Of the Southeast Side, he said:
"You don't forget it. You reinvest in there . . . just because something
happens, you just don't get upset and run away."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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