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Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd.
Washington Park (formerly Western Division of South Park, also Park No. 21) is a 372-acre (1.5 km 2) [2] park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, (originally known as "Grand Boulevard") located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr. in the Washington Park community area on the South Side of Chicago.
The Washington Park Court District is a Grand Boulevard community area neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 2, 1991. [2] Despite its name, it is not located within either the Washington Park community area or the Washington Park park, but is one block north of both. The district ...
The largest park in southwest Chicago; has a golf course and many other attractions Millennium Park: Chicago Loop: 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) Chicago's newest marquee park, opened in 2004, just north of the Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Washington Park: Washington Park: 346 acres (140 ha)
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Harold Washington Park is a small (10 acre) [1] park in the Chicago Park District located in the Hyde Park community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. In 1992, it was named for Harold Washington (1922–1987), the first African-American Chicago Mayor .
Powers had been a Chicago alderman on the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly legislator in the 1920s, and used the site for picnics to feed the needy during the Great Depression. [3] The park also has a military history. There is a defunct Nike Ajax missile honoring the missile site that occupied the area during the Cold War years.
The Washington Park community area occupies the Southern two-thirds of the former Washington Park Race Track.The area is a 4-city block (8 east-west half-blocks) by 3-city block area in northwest corner of the Woodlawn community area and bounded by Dr. Martin Luther King Drive to the west, South Cottage Grove Avenue to the East, East 60th Street to the North and East 63rd Street to the South.