Mount Greenwood Park takes its name from the surrounding community. In 1879, George Waite obtained a state charter to develop a large cemetery on a...
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Mission:The Oak Lawn Park District is committed to promoting a strong sense of community by providing cultural and recreational opportunities in a ...
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History:Soon after World War II, the Chicago Park District began a major initiative to create new parks for the first time in many years. This Ten ...
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History:The South Park Commission created Avalon Park in the 1920s in a south side neighborhood with a long, interesting history. In 1889, when Chi...
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History
In October of 1901, one month after the assassination of William McKinley, 25th President of the United States, the South Park Commission (...
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Location: Timber Trails Neighborhood
Description:
Timber Trails Park is a neighborhood park that is relatively rectangular in shape. Contained wi...
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Located in the Hyde Park community, Midway Plaisance is a special-use ice skating rink facility which totals 83 acres and features a warming center...
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Euclid Square Park, located in south Oak Park, is a popular place for baseball games and recreational tennis. The park provides a looped pathway id...
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William W. Powers State Recreation Area, located on Wolf Lake on Chicago's far southeast side at the Illinois-Indiana state line, offers opportuni...
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Maple Park is the Park District's 3rd largest park featuring an abundance of recreational opportunities including baseball, soccer, tennis, walking...
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Located in the Lower West side Community area and Pilsen neighborhood, Dvorak Park totals 5.63 acres and features an auditorium, 2 gymnasiums, meet...
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A road winds south through Eggers Grove, providing access to the picnic groves, trail and parking. In the preserve's northern half, picnic groves w...
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The Garfield Park Conservatory is one of the largest and most stunning conservatories in the nation. Often referred to as "landscape art unde...
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Located in the Near West Community Area, Skinner Park totals 7.32 acres and features a small fieldhouse. The Park also shares use of the adjacent W...
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Located in the Near South Community, formerly known as park number 507, the name was changed in 1999 to Coliseum. It has one playground, a passive ...
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Park No. 551, commonly known as Fulton River Park, is a 1-acre green space that was completed in 2008.As part of a planned development, the Fifield...
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The Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain, one of the largest in the world, is located at Columbus Drive (301 East) and Congress Parkway (500 South...
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Our Story The 606 was a decade in the making. As train traffic slowed on the Bloomingdale Line in the 1990s, attention turned to how the train li...
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History:In 1870, when businessmen and developers Charles G. and Joel H. Wicker began constructing drainage ditches and laying out streets in their ...
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History
 In 2012, the Chicago Park District began transforming the northeastern part of Grant Park into Maggie Daley Park. For many decades, an ex...
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