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Marquette Park, the largest park on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, at 323 acres (1.31 km 2), is located at in the city's Chicago Lawn neighborhood The park is named for Father Jacques Marquette (1637–1675).
The statue in Pere Marquette Park, Marquette, Michigan. Another version of the statue is the 1897 bronze casting located in Pere Marquette Park, Marquette, Michigan which was cast in Florence, Italy and includes two bas reliefs set in the sandstone base. [4]
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Marquette Park may refer to one of several places that are named in honor of Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit missionary. Marquette Park (Chicago) in Chicago, Illinois; Marquette Park (Gary) in Gary, Indiana; Marquette Park (Mackinac Island) on Mackinac Island, Michigan; Marquette Park (St. Louis), a historic park in the Dutchtown ...
The building was named after Father Jacques Marquette, the first European settler in Chicago, who explored the Chicago region in 1674 and wintered in the area for the 1674-5 winter season. It was designed by William Holabird and Martin Roche , with Coydon T. Purdy, architects of the firm Holabird & Roche .
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A residential corner in West Lawn. West Lawn is the home of the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture along Pulaski.It was founded by Lithuanian-American businessman Stanley Balzekas Jr., and is the only museum in the US devoted to the subjects of Lithuania, the Lithuanian language, history, culture and politics, and to the Lithuanian-American experience.
The Statue of The Republic is a 24-foot-high (7.3 m) gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois by Daniel Chester French. It is based on a colossal original statue, which was a centerpiece of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. That statue was made of temporary materials and was destroyed after the fair.