McCormick Place: Keep the Lights Out

Field Museum

Target:

Board of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority

Signatures:

10,612

10,000

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Petition

We demand that the Governor of Illinois, the Mayor of Chicago and those managing the McCormick Place Lakeside facility take immediate and urgent action to require that interior lights at McCormick Place East be extinguished or shades drawn every night of migration. This means requiring exhibitors to agree to these conditions. These protections have been shown to result in an 80% reduction in bird strikes at this location.

Petition background

The tragic death of nearly a thousand birds at the McCormick Lakeside facility on October 5 is a strong wakeup call about the potential for mass casualties if lights are not extinguished. McCormick Place has been told many times that simply requiring their exhibitors to draw curtains or turn off lights at the end of the day would prevent 80% of bird deaths. This they refuse to do.

The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority manages McCormick Place. (The Mayor and Governor each appoint 4 of the board's 8 members.) You can send a message to their board of directors here:
Maria E. Calderon
mpeaboard@mpea.com
312-791-6331

This petition will be delivered MPEA at their next meeting on Monday, October 30th (moved from the 24th), if possible. Copies will also be delivered to the Mayor and Governor. Please share widely. We will post more details when we have them.

This petition was created by Bird Friendly Chicago: Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Chicago Audubon Society, Chicago Ornithological Society

We signed: McCormick Place: Keep the Lights Out

Joan

River forest, IL

Wed, 2023-11-15 08:30

#10552

Christopher

Cicero, IL

Wed, 2023-11-15 08:21

#10551

Ariana

Vancouver, WA

Tue, 2023-11-14 22:49

#10550

Forrester

Cary, IL

Tue, 2023-11-14 18:39

#10549

Georgina

San Jose, CA

Tue, 2023-11-14 15:17

#10548

Andy

Oak Park, IL

Tue, 2023-11-14 15:17

#10547

Brian

Manistee, MI

Tue, 2023-11-14 07:16

#10546

Regina

Portland, OR

Tue, 2023-11-14 00:05

#10545

Trudy

Wyalusing, PA

Mon, 2023-11-13 16:38

#10544

diana

cicero, IL

Mon, 2023-11-13 16:34

#10543

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