>Though like many of Chicago’s boasts that number was probably inflated by including replacement trees.
My hackles go up whenever I see someone write "probably." If Mayor Daley did one thing right, he spent a lot of money improving the greenscape in the city. The most obvious change in the past 20 years (in my opinion) is the former site of the Lincoln Park Gun Club (http://www.lincolnparkconservancy.org/diversy_point.html). The article mentions that they removed 11 trees and planted 105. What used to be a fairly empty and stark promontory is now a glade of nice shade trees (http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7G6Z_A_Signal_of_Peace_...).
Daley also added center lane parkways along Chicago's wider streets that add to the shade of the city.
I don't doubt that there are a replacement trees in the total, but I once heard Daley admonish an employee for replacing good trees with "buggy whips" just to get the numbers up.
> My hackles go up whenever I see someone write "probably."
I'd rather have someone put error bars on their knowledge with "probably" than emit a shorter, more confident sounding (but more wrong) sentence that omits the "probably".
My hackles go up whenever I see someone write "probably." If Mayor Daley did one thing right, he spent a lot of money improving the greenscape in the city. The most obvious change in the past 20 years (in my opinion) is the former site of the Lincoln Park Gun Club (http://www.lincolnparkconservancy.org/diversy_point.html). The article mentions that they removed 11 trees and planted 105. What used to be a fairly empty and stark promontory is now a glade of nice shade trees (http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM7G6Z_A_Signal_of_Peace_...).
Daley also added center lane parkways along Chicago's wider streets that add to the shade of the city.
I don't doubt that there are a replacement trees in the total, but I once heard Daley admonish an employee for replacing good trees with "buggy whips" just to get the numbers up.