63rd Street Beach currently sits inside Jackson (Andrew) Park, Park No. 19 — it does not have its own park identity, and it does not have its own Park Advisory Council. Getting to a fully independent, community-governed beach means doing two distinct things, more or less at the same time, because they depend on different Chicago Park District offices and different kinds of evidence:
63rd Street Bongo Beach Park
Right now, CPD administers 63rd Street Beach as a facility inside Jackson Park, not as its own park. This track is the case for distinct park recognition — the history behind why that's not as unusual a request as it sounds, and the dossier of evidence needed to ask CPD for it in writing.
Status: recognition case in progress, not yet submitted to CPD Enter This Track → B Track B · Creating the councilThe Park Advisory Council (BBPAC)
Separately, this is the governance work: bylaws, board structure, financial controls, and the full CPD registration process needed to stand up the community council that will help oversee the beach once it exists as recognized ground — 510 documents across 12 phases, published as each is drafted.
Status: 12 phases drafted; Phase 0 (Pre-Formation Gate) still pending a CPD response Enter This Track →Why both, and why now? Track B's own Phase 0 depends partly on how Track A resolves — CPD's guidelines recognize only one registered PAC per park, and Jackson Park already has one (JPAC). If Track A succeeds and 63rd Street Beach becomes its own distinct park, Track B's path gets much more straightforward. That's why this organizing effort keeps building both tracks in parallel instead of waiting on one to finish before starting the other: nobody knows yet which piece resolves first, and neither track's paperwork is wasted if it doesn't.
New organizers: the full research behind Track A — precedent library, CPD stakeholder & authority matrix, and a live evidence/verification tracker — lives in a working staff site, not yet fact- and legal-reviewed for outside audiences.
Organizer resources →The threshold question: Phase 0
63rd Street Beach sits within Jackson (Andrew) Park, which already has a Chicago Park District-recognized Jackson Park Advisory Council (JPAC). Current CPD Advisory Council Guidelines generally recognize only one registered PAC per park. Before anything below is treated as more than a draft, we've asked CPD in writing whether a separate 63rd Street Beach PAC is possible — or whether this becomes a sub-council under JPAC, or an independent community organization instead. Until that comes back, every document here reflects a proposed path, not a settled one.
Read the full Phase 0 record →Search the full document library
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Version Log — live, public, permanent
Every determination, boundary map, and document behind both tracks, straight from the database — and every change to any of it, in order, forever. Nothing here is ever edited in place or deleted.
Master Due-Diligence Matrix — 744 items, 27 domains
Every system, department, and record that could require a decision, change, transfer, or new policy for the split — governance, GIS, City of Chicago systems, assets, finance, insurance, signage, records, and the small things that get missed — plus the 25-phase transition roadmap.
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Join a Section →How much of the matrix is exhausted on our own side vs. genuinely waiting on someone else — section by section, live.
Readiness Dashboard →Opted-in team leaders: approve or send back item submissions from any section — not just your own.
Review Queue →The 12 formation phases
All 510 documents across all 12 phases now carry complete original drafted text, including the full 30-article draft Bylaws. Every document is still labeled Proposed, not Adopted — this remains a living library, revised as the Board formally acts on each document and as Phase 0 resolves.