Hallowed Ground?

Mallinckrodt cause for controversy yet again, this time within the hallowed confines of a Wilmette Park District board meeting. What to name the new park, aquired at a cost of $20 million, less the acreage of the private condos and more than a few venerable trees lining the parkway? Wilmette Life:

Commissioner Richard Marcus, author of the idea of a contest to name the park, shed new doubt Monday on the possibility of naming it Mallinckrodt: a possible conflict with the constitutional separation of church and state.

Commissioners voted unanimously to ask the district's lawyer to investigate that issue. The district's Financial Planning and Policy Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at Village Hall to discuss changing the district's park naming policy to make a contest possible.

So we taxpayers are going to fund this legal inquiry. While he or she is at it, perhaps they could ask neighboring suburb St. Charles for their take, or maybe St. Louis, and investigate the propriety of the Rev. Martin Luther King day. But maybe Mr. Marcus has something else in mind, the _____ _______ Memorial Park.