why would it have a greater following in Lincoln park?

Because the park is larger and has more regular visitors on a Sunday, particularly children.

you and i both know thats not true. the music isnt "bouncing off your walls", lets just be honest here. whats the real problem?

You're wrong, Tony. The drumming is very disruptive to residents around the park and the noise does bounce off buildings. Many people trying to use the park have also asked that the drumming move to an area that won't disturb so many. Those who think it's fine, aren't people whose homes are actually impacted.

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Why is this issue closed? It hasn't been resolved yet.

It was accidentally closed. Just reopen

Have you asked the drummers these questions? Also they’ve been drumming on the playground for well over 20 years or at least since I was in high school. Also as a side not Lincoln park is shaped like an amphitheater.

Actually, they used to drum on the hill adjacent to the playground, back further in the grove..As far as speaking to them, do you or anyone who can help know someone among them to contact? As group they must have a leader or a spokesman to talk to. It's pointless must to go over there and single someone out. Re Lincoln Park, there's tons of usable space there away from residential buildings.. Unlike Washington Park, there's the pool area and the basketball courts. From pictures, there a lot more kids there than Washington Park. Why are so many hostile to the suggestion? Is there a sacred right to use only Washington Park? And if so, why? And at the least, I've made several suggestions about a better area in Washington Park, further away from the residential buildings.

I think people probably feel like it’s another reason to live in the city. Cultural exposure and community gathering is usually a desirable thing and your calling it a nuisance essentially. I don’t personally know any of the drumming participants however I’m sure they’re not mean people by any means. I think if you were to start a conversation you may be pleasantly surprised. They’re not breaking any laws that I am aware of so this method will get you no where.

Why is Washington Park a cultural site and not Lincoln Park? If Lincoln Park isn't, the City is trying to make it so building an outdoor theater there. Is the Lincoln Park neighborhood considered undesirable compared to Washington Park? Seems a little bit of bias in that. Anyway, if people weren't so emotional about this on both sides, they could see I am not asking to stop the drumming but relocate it to a better space for residents in Washington Park or else even a better space for the community near Lincoln Park. As to who to talk to, I am not going to stop the drummers and demand they move to another spot in Washington Park. That's a bit presumptuous on my part. But do they have a spokesman, a leader, who the neighborhood could work things out with? I'm waiting for an answer. Anyway, most of the people using the Park are residents of the Madison/State St. neighborhood, except for the Playhouse, the Christmas lights and other special events. I have yet to see dozens of spectators gathered about the drummers.

I'm sure the drumming can't be heard in Mara Largo or Alabama.

The lights in the park need to go, the drum circle has never caused the issues the lights have. That is a whole different ball of wax though.

As a resident of 451 State street 2 blocks below the Sunday drum circle, I can barely hear the drummers on State Street, but listen for them and occasionally join in the circle with my djimbe. I would miss out on this wonderful event to play music and celebrate culture if the circle were to relocate to Lincoln Park (which, BTW, is closed for infrastructure development, as far as I know). The drumming is not loud. This request is ridiculous when compared with the invasion of Christmas lights, for example. As a 40-year neighborhood resident, I say keep the drum circle in Washington Park, and send the traffic-clogging suburban plastic Christian holiday display seekers elsewhere.

Right, you're two blocks away. That's what I have suggested for those on the blocks above you. Just move the circle across the road to the hilltop on the right by Edgewood Place, in the grove near the Lakehouse, Plenty of room, shaded, a move of maybe 700 feet at most. Yet far enough away from Madison Ave to present no problem to them and out of the direct range of the upper blocks of State St. I never said to move them from Washington Park, I merely asked for a decent relocation a few hundred feet away. As far as Lincoln Park, didn't know it was closed. But I'm sure if they drummed there once in a while the folks in that neighborhood would appreciate it just as much as you. So, you speak from your perspective and location, I speak from mine. A short move and both of us would benefit. To shoot this very reasonable suggestion down is mere pigheadedness' to me,. Since you play with them once in a while, maybe you're the person to suggest it to them.

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This has not been resolved nor has the issue of the drummers driving on the playground every Sunday to load and unload their drums and park on the grass. This is illegal and very dangerous. It's a playground. It has been reported multiple times with photos and license plates. Many people--not just State Street residents--complain about the long hours of drumming, including people visiting the park. If you don't live where you can hear it for hours, you aren't in a position to understand. There are many things I like to listen to that I would still never presume to subject others to, including in their homes.

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