Charlotte Newfeld, chair of the parks committee of the Lakeview Citizens Council, at the Addison Street Bird Sanctuary in September 2002.
“She was a ferocious defender on the issues she was concerned with. She never stopped,” said former 46th Ward Ald. Helen Shiller. “She was like the Energizer Bunny.”Newfeld, 91, died of natural causes Nov. 17 at the Dobson Plaza memory care facility in Evanston, said her daughter, Julie. She had been a Lakeview resident for more than 60 years.
Those friendships sparked several decades of advocacy on behalf of that community, including lobbying for a human rights ordinance that would prevent discrimination due to sexual orientation and gender identity at the city and county levels, demanding a mayoral liaison to the LGBT community and seeking the creation of a city committee on LGBT issues.
“Our volunteerism provided demanding adventures working shoulder to shoulder with brilliant lawyers, courageous organizers and with genuine diversity,” Smith recalled. The group notched some early victories, including city and state legislation initially barring night games from being played at Wrigley. Ultimately, however, the team’s desire for night games prevailed, and the Cubs played their first home night game in 1988. Even so, Newfeld continued holding the Cubs’ feet to the fire each time the team asked for more from the city, such as attempting to increase the number of night games or other events at the ballpark.
“One of the reasons Wrigley Field has remained, and is as popular as it is, is that we made it a worldwide icon based on sunshine and green,” she told the Tribune. “It was that campaign on ‘No Lights’ that did it.”Newfeld later applied her energies to advocating for the protection and restoration of the Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary at Montrose Harbor.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
I got to know Charlotte Newfeld when she lived on Pine Grove. She never hesitated to speak truth to power. 👍 I think about her when I walk by the townhouse where she used to live. A correction: The Bill Jarvis Bird Sanctuary is located near Addison Street, not Montrose Harbor.
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