I think in looking back at my time at Lincoln Park Zoo, that the biggest frustrations would be the bureaucratic overlay. There were times that you’d wanna see things done better, quicker. And it just doesn’t work that way in a city bureaucracy. And the Park District is just a branch of city government. Keep in mind that the Park District in Chicago is not a park department, most cities have a park department. During the depression, so the history tells me, Chicago created not only Chicago, the state of Illinois created Park Districts. I think there’s one in Springfield, one in Rockford, one in Chicago, there may be one or two others that I can think of at the moment. And these are separate taxing districts so that the commission, the park commission are a separate legal entity, get their own money from the tax base and run their own operation.
