{"id":14721,"date":"2015-05-14T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=14721"},"modified":"2015-12-09T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:38:35","slug":"video-maggie-daley-parks-rock-climbing-walls-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-maggie-daley-parks-rock-climbing-walls-open\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Maggie Daley Park&#8217;s Rock Climbing Walls Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Evan Garcia<\/p>\n<p>The Malkin-Sacks Rock Climbing Walls at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoparkdistrict.com\/parks\/maggie-daley-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Daley Park<\/a> opened somewhat anticlimactically on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For most of the afternoon, park employees outnumbered climbers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going great, we\u2019ve had two climbers so far,\u201d one worker said sarcastically just before noon. The worker asked not to be named.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Maggie Daley Park&#039;s Rock Climbing Walls Open\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/127665179?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The weather was likely to blame for thin attendance. It was windy and the\u00a0temperature hovered in the high\u00a040s for most of\u00a0the day.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Nelson, 30, was the first climber to take to the wall around 11 a.m. \u00a0He\u2019s been climbing for 10\u00a0years and had been anticipating the walls&#8217; construction\u00a0for at least a couple of those years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll pick up more on the weekends probably,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cThe weather is pretty lousy today for climbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14761\" style=\"width: 1271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-13-at-2.11.07-PM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14761 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-13-at-2.11.07-PM.png\" alt=\"One of two rock climbing walls at Maggie Daley Park. (Evan Garcia\/Medill)\" width=\"1271\" height=\"713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-13-at-2.11.07-PM.png 1271w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-13-at-2.11.07-PM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-13-at-2.11.07-PM-1024x574.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1271px) 100vw, 1271px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of two rock climbing walls at Maggie Daley Park. (Evan Garcia\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The two rock climbing walls take up 19,000 square feet of the park and reach a maximum height of 40 feet. There are sections for beginners and advanced climbers on both walls. Up to 100 climbers can use the wall at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Maggie Daley Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Maggie+Daley+Park\/@41.882386,-87.619043,15z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xab7aa63b15c80bf8?sa=X&amp;ei=NcpUVZJLiu-gBLW2gMgN&amp;ved=0CJQBEPwSMA0\" target=\"_blank\">located in the Loop within Grant Park,<\/a> was opened last December after a redesign of what had been Daley Bicentennial Plaza. The park also features a mile-long ice skating ribbon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Jonny Nelson climbs the\u00a0rock climbing wall at Maggie Daley Park. (Evan Garcia\/Medill)<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/cantv.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8953\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/05\/CAN-TV-logo.jpg\" alt=\"CAN TV logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cantv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MEDILL REPORTS<br \/>\nON CAN TV<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In Chicago, watch Medill Reports video stories on CAN-TV channel 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evan Garcia The Malkin-Sacks Rock Climbing Walls at Maggie Daley Park opened somewhat anticlimactically on Tuesday. 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