Juanita Irizarry, Executive Director - Friends of the Parks

There’s “not a lot of hope” that Chicago can keep the Bears—even at a domed Soldier Field—but a new “vision” to re-imagine the museum campus can still reclaim park land and make Northerly Island the nature preserve it was intended to be, a parks advocate said Tuesday.Friends of the Parks Executive Director Juanita Irizarry served on the 23-member working group that unveiled its ambitious, 50-page plan last week.