DuSable Park is named for Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, and was dedicated as park land in 1988. Located where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan, this park site provides an opportunity to celebrate Chicagoês origins. The undeveloped three-acre park is a critical piece of Chicagoês lake front park system. The goal of the competition was to generate ideas on how to create a multi-cultural park active, visible, and accessible to the water so that its potential to become one of Chicagoês most cherished public location is realized.

Two teams from Copley Wolff Design Group submitted design ideas. The first submission advocated taking a bold first step in order to draw attention to the site. By erecting a large, inflatable cow on the site, the team hoped to generate debate and discussion to spur a political and social commitment to the stewardship and cleanup of the site.

The second submission supports reclaiming the area as a natural meadow and allowing the future phasing (e.g. recreation fields, paths, and amphitheater), to be determined by the local communityês use of the site. The team felt that during a long bioremediation period in which the contaminated soil issue would be addressed, the surrounding community could appropriate the area for its own uses while at the same time strengthening the socio-political will to maintain the area as open space.