Please join the Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Park District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a meeting to present the Chicago Shoreline Storm Damage Reduction Project near Fullerton Avenue and around the Theater on the Lake.

The project will replace the existing failed revetment with a steel and concrete revetment designed to manage wave attack.  The upland areas will direct any overtopping wave flows safely back to Lake Michigan.

The project includes:

• 1,700 feet of new revetment, tying into the existing revetment to the north and terminating at the southern end of the northern-most beach cell that is failed.
• Converting the existing failed beach cell to new parkland, adding approximately 5.8 acres of park space in an area that is regularly congested with park goers.
• Reusing existing limestone blocks when possible to enhance the architectural park features.

The two-year, $16 million project is expected to start construction in early 2014.

During the construction, the Lakefront trail will be temporarily rerouted on the west side of the Lincoln Park Lagoon.  The Theater on the Lake will remain accessible, but may have limitations on the theater staging area.

The public informational meeting we be:

Thursday, August 22nd

7:00pm - 8:30pm

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

North Gallery, 2nd Floor

2430 N. Cannon Dr.