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Article: Golf dome's on a par with best of ideas
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 24, 1991
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Scott Casti's indoor golf dome was supposed to be built smack on
Chicago's lakefront until the civic do-gooders got wind of it.
The do-gooders, such as the Friends of the Parks, concluded that
a 70-foot-high white canvas golf dome would be completely out of
place on the lakefront. It would look ugly, they said, and block a
fine view.
So in 1989, the Friends and other dome critics took their case
to the Park District Board and, in March, prevailed. Casti's dome -
never erected - was banished from the lakefront.
Today the dome stands, in all its glorious blimpiness, on the
roof of an enormous former railroad building on the south edge of the
Loop, in the middle of seemingly nowhere.
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