Another thing that I felt good about in reflecting back on my time at the Old Zoo was the fact that I could tell Mayor Daley, the father, and I could tell Mayor Daley, the son that I thought and believed sincerely that Lincoln Park was probably the only happy neutral turf left in the city of Chicago. And by that, I mean, the fact that on any given summer Sunday, we could put, I don’t know, 25 to 40,000 people a day into that little zoo and never have a policeman there. People got along well, children from Cabrini-Green Housing were just as welcome as children from the wealthy Lake Shore area. Everybody liked their zoo, I made a point to make sure that the community felt that it was their zoo, which it was. And so I think the fact that then and now in Chicago and more so now because I guess in some ways our diversity is different than it was 40. 50 years ago. That people of every socioeconomic level could and did come to the zoo. And part of my sorta salary was to walk around that zoo and just see the happy faces of families, whether black, Latino, Asian, white, everybody came and enjoyed. So I think that, to me, that was a wonderful thing.
