Wilmette Has A Skate Park

4 years ago, my friends and I started Skate Wilmette to try to get a skate park in Wilmette, IL. Soon after I moved to London, the park board voted to build a skate park. Today, that park opened. Here are some photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30487866@N07/sets/72157607285723122/

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Skate
• Wilmette
• skatepark
• park
• skateboard
• skateboarding
• grassroots
• local
• government

[chexmixBMX101]

do u know my brother andrew?

[xakaxunknownx]

Scherer? ya. we went to wjhs together. are they letting bmx bikes at the park?

[tpb211]

Huge Congrats! We are working on getting our local government to build a skatepark in our community. It is nice to hear your sucess story! Keep skating!

[xakaxunknownx]

Good luck. Our biggest roadblocks were the "Not in my backyard" people who wanted a skatepark, but not where they could hear it, so watch out for them

[uilium]

cool

[threesixtyflipyeah]

yeah wtf why dont you blink you alien

[lazaraga]

i noticed you don't blink

[DearlyBelovedxx3]

its a nice park ive been their 3 times its small but what they have heir is fun to skate :D

[skateaboard95b]

uh peter not nessicarily, i went to the meetings wen i was like 6

[ddr122]

no they don't allow bmx. Many kids been kicked out for that

[VolcomSkater29]

theyve been supposed to for 14 years!!!!!!

[EnjoI254SkatinG]

its really cool but there like over thinking it they bondoed all the cracks for like no reason, yell at us for smoking and wayy to many children but its really fun man

[chexmixBMX101]

heh. funny story. so, i was biking there wen this random lady walking by said to me "get off there! there is no bikes allowed!" so i got off. when she was out of sight i got back on. then 20 min. l8r she came back and said "i told you one already im now going in there to get you out!" so i kept on riding and she cam out of the rec center with a guy who worked there. so then they where both yelling at me so i left.