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The history behind the creation of the park was started as a source of
contention between the city of San Diego and the local Chicano
community. Originally back in the late 1960s and early 1970 there were
plans to create a park but then the city decided to build a government
building instead. The locals were tired of all the construction and
industrialization of their neighborhood, especially in the aftermath of
the construction of both I-5 and the Coronado bridge which
geographically divided the community. The locals started an uprise at
that site that lasted almost two weeks. They wanted something in return
for the community after all of the industrialization that had took place
in the prior two decades. And thus Chicano Park was established at that
site on April 22, 1970.
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