SHORE LAND | Berger Park

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CREDITS

Interview:

  • Billie Warren (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi)

Readers:

  • Mehrdad Azemun, Mark Diaz, JeeYeun Lee, Heather Miller (Wyandotte Nation), Zachary Nicol

Songs:

  • Special permission for use of Nibi Water Song by Zoongi Gabowi Ozawa Kinew Ikwe (Strong Standing Golden Eagle Woman), Anishnabe Nation, Crane Clan (Ojijak)

  • Ieodo Sana folk song, with lead singer Kyung-sung Kim, Northern Jeju region in Jeju Island, South Korea (1989)

Texts: 

  • Treaty of Prairie du Chien (July 29, 1829)

  • Plan of Chicago, by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett (The Commercial Club of Chicago, 1909)

  • “Enlargement of Parks by Reclaiming Submerged Lands,” State of Illinois laws 282-284 (1895)

  • Lincoln Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act, 70 Illinois Compiled Statutes 1570 (1931)

  • Wall v. Chicago Park District, Illinois Supreme Court (September 17, 1941)

  • Lake Michigan Federation v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (July 18, 1990)

  • “The Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance,” Chapter 16-4, Municipal Code of Chicago, Chicago City Council (1990)

  • Shoreline Reconstruction Plans for Chicago, by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago Park District, and City of Chicago (June 1993)

  • Coastal Erosion along the Illinois Coastal Zone, Illinois Coastal Management Program Issue Paper, Illinois Department of Natural Resources (2011)

Sound:

  • Audio editing by JeeYeun Lee

  • Sound engineering by Troy Cruz

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