If that is the case, feel free to explore what I unpacked over the last year. Thanks again for reading these, whatever you were able to read, or if you are just reading this right now for the first time. It is good to feel passion about things like this! But what matters the most here is that no matter how you choose to assign a ranking to some thing or things - a parks system in this case - it’s that you are thinking and feeling something strong about it. I have my perspective, and I think it is both cogent and valuable. Look, there’s no one person who can define what the “best” of anything is, honestly. Does it mean that I am a human being with thoughts and feelings and a forty plus year history living here that played a role in this assessment? Does it mean that they are the twenty that provide the most amenities? No. Does that mean they are the twenty best kept? No. In my opinion, these are the twenty best parks to visit and explore in all of Champaign-Urbana. I think I knew all that, but once you truly begin to see the layers, and explore the depth of difficulty that it contains, perspective changes. That funding has restrictions - and it has layers of red tape to cut through - in order to actually write a check for this, that, or the other. There’s a lot to unpack when you analyze and start to define something like a taxing body, which is responsible to not only everyone, but to many individuals, all based on something that is collectively funded and run through a governmental system of checks and balances. One of the most profound realizations I came to in finishing this project was just how wrong my assumptions were about the scope of our parks and the organizations that run them.
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