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  2. William W. Powers State Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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    William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres (230 ha) in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [1] The area includes 419 acres (170 ha) of water in Wolf Lake that provides about 6 miles (10 km) of ...

  3. Chicago Park District - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Park District is one of the oldest and the largest park districts in the United States. As of 2016, there are over 600 parks included in the Chicago Park District as well as 27 beaches, 10 boat docking harbors, two botanic conservatories, a zoo, 11 museums, and one stadium. The Chicago Park District also has more than over 230 field ...

  4. Parks in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Park District manages 220 facilities in 570 parks covering more than 7,600 acres (3,100 ha) of land throughout the city. [7] This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors over 24 miles (39 km) of lakefront, rendering the Chicago Park District the nation's largest municipal harbor system, along with 31 beaches, 17 historic lagoons, 86 pools, 90 playgrounds, 90 ...

  5. Maggie Daley Park - Wikipedia

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    Maggie Daley Park is a 20-acre (81,000 m 2) public park in the Loop community area of Chicago operated by the Chicago Park District. It is near the Lake Michigan shoreline in northeastern Grant Park where Daley Bicentennial Plaza previously stood. [1][2] Maggie Daley Park, like its predecessor, is connected to Millennium Park by the BP ...

  6. White Pines Forest State Park - Wikipedia

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    White Pines Forest State Park, more commonly referred to as White Pines State Park, is an Illinois state park in Ogle County, Illinois. It is located near the communities of Polo, Mount Morris and Oregon. The 385-acre (156 ha) park contains the southernmost remaining stand of native white pine trees in the state of Illinois, and that area, 43 ...

  7. Jackson Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre (223.2 ha) urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition.

  8. List of parks in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Jackson Park. Hyde Park, Woodlawn, South Shore. 551 acres (223 ha) Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, famous for its role in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park. 1,188 acres (481 ha) Chicago's largest city park. Located north of the Loop, this is one of the more distinctive parks in terms of geography, because ...

  9. Humboldt Park (Chicago park) - Wikipedia

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    Designated CL. November 13, 1996 and. February 6, 2008. Humboldt Park is a 207-acre (84 ha) park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue in West Town, [2] on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. To its west is the neighborhood named after it, also called Humboldt Park. It opened in 1877, and is one of the largest parks on the West Side.

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