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most urban farms in Chicago and other cities don’t grow right in the soil; instead they bring in dirt from elsewhere and usually put some sort of buffer—such as a durable tarp—between that and the ground soil to avoid contact with the contaminants that are at times heavily present. The Chicago Lights farm actually operates on top of the concrete from an old basketball court, so the chances of growing contaminated food there is virtually nill!

Just type in "Chicago Vlog" in the YouTube search box for a sampling of Chicago tourism. As in most things, some are excellent, some are good, some are just self-indulgent.

I bet you are constrained in plantings by depth of medium (aka soil) and building rules. Those even may be "trays" rather than actual planting, though it doesn’t look like it.

Even if they were to build the gateway tower, I don’t see this being a high-usage parcel…clean the contaminated soil, put in some plants that don’t require maintenance and let it sit.

I am not a structural engineer but if they are going down 100’, I think they will be in bedrock. Our swampy soil doesn’t go that deep…correct me if I am wrong.

If that’s what soil sample equipment looks like, they’ve been doing the same thing to the parking lot at the SW corner of Franklin & Illinois. Any knowledge on that location?

@CaptainVideo: The ‘grey line’ proposal is a joke – full of inept assumptions about how it would work. And I don’t hear anybody who actually RIDES Metra Electric wanting a change….

Why bother polluting (how does it come, on trucks of course, with excavating machinery to package it) bringing in top soil and all the effort when you could just farm where the soil was to start with. We don’t have a shortage of good farmland in the region. And then there is the pollution from simply being in a dense area which you don’t have in farm country…

@STARCHY:

The entire neighborhood is there? No, just a small sampling centered on Halsted and Grace that conveniently ignores the high rise portion of the neighborhood. No worries, I typed it all out for you… feel free to check it out again.

I think we need to return to the term "victory garden" rather than urban farming. I still think it’s just a yuppie hobby fad – it’ll never be a major food source, and I just am suspicious of the quality of the produce because of the soil it’s grown in.

They threw the area a bone, as it where, to show them something.

Great, now we can have children playing futbol on artificial turf while digging and construction in toxic soil happens near by. Think of the children!!!