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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 racial demographics of Marquette Park had changed significantly throughout the 1980s. The 1980 census found that the population of Marquette Park was 82% white, 11% Hispanic and 4.6% black, with six out of the nine census tracts in the neighborhood having zero black residents. Reflecting changes in residential patterns and new immigration ...
A Signal of Peace; Spirit of Music (sculpture) Statue of Alexander Hamilton (Chicago) Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Chicago) Statue of Benito Juárez (Chicago) Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Chicago) Statue of Christopher Columbus (Chicago) Statue of Irv Kupcinet; Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago) Statue of Michael Jordan; Statue of Richard J ...
Hering's Pere Marquette statue in Marquette Park, Gary The relief sculpture Regeneration on the side of a bridgehouse of the DuSable Bridge in Chicago. Science, Research, Record, and The Dissemination of Knowledge, Field Museum of Natural History, 1917 [6] Energy in Repose, Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, 1923
A Signal of Peace is an 1890 bronze equestrian sculpture by Cyrus Edwin Dallin located in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Dallin created the work while studying in Paris and based the figure on a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show , which he attended often.
A bronze bust of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable by Erik Blome is installed in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. [1] History. The work was installed in 2009. [2]
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.
The Spirit of Music also known as the Theodore Thomas Memorial, is an outdoor 1923 sculpture and monument commemorating Theodore Thomas (founder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) by Czech-American artist and educator Albin Polasek, installed in Chicago's Grant Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois.