Transforming a forgotten public park in Chicago into a sweet disc golf course | Jomez
Transforming a forgotten public park in Chicago into a sweet disc golf course is a project that's close to Jomez's heart. In this episode of Unstable Discourse, he shares his passion for disc golf and how it has the potential to bring communities together. With a goal to introduce the sport to major cities, Jomez and his team have set out to create a disc golf course in Chicago's Jackson Park, one of the city's largest public spaces. With the help of locals like Louise McCurry, president of the Jackson Park Advisory Council, who has been instrumental in bringing this project to life, the team has been working tirelessly to transform the park into a thriving disc golf course. From cleaning up the area and installing new terrain features to partnering with volunteers and community members, every detail is carefully considered to create an enjoyable experience for players of all ages and skill levels.
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so disc golf wasn't called this golf when i first started playing it it was frisbee golf you didn't need a lot of fancy equipment you needed a disc and you needed some kind of goal when you're a south side park in the city of chicago and have somebody say to you we'll help you that's huge welcome in to episode 10 of season two of unstable discourse aka the live episode for the foundation this is our our first project in a major city with coven you know people need to find a thing to get get outside disc golf kind of took off with that and i think we just kind of need to keep keep riding that momentum in a big city so i'm fired up about that yeah man it's totally different to the other projects you guys have been taking on new york and seattle and every other area that has a ton of people and no disc golf hopefully this is the start of that change so cleaning this place up a half block from the field house so we can play disc golf it's gigantic it's just gigantic because it means we'll have kids out here playing with their parents for the rest so louise is like 70 and she's been coming out every saturday to the park cleanup you could not see any of this three weeks ago but you can see what a wonderful expanse of green all of this is she's out there with saws like chopping stuff had to go to the emergency room it was back a couple days later doing it again the golf course is now mowing she cares so intensely about this community up until 1956 this was a place the whole world came to play and from like day one she was telling me whether we get it in this park or some other park in the area we're going to make this happen hi my name is louise mccurry and i'm the president of jackson park advisory council all right thank you thank you thank you i think every park in chicago ought to have a disc golf course of some sort jackson park is the second largest park in the city so we have about 700 acres and we have hundreds of volunteers who work to keep this park safe and...
