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The Chicago Park District oversees more than 600 parks with over 8,800 acres (3,600 ha) of municipal parkland as well as 27 beaches, 78 pools, 11 museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and 10 bird and wildlife gardens that are found within the city limits. [3]
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 ...
Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, [1] [2] to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. [3]
The Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District, which encompasses most of the Boulevard System, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [14] The approved listing, stretches approximately 26 miles, including 8 parks, 19 boulevards, and 6 squares, as well as adjacent properties that preserve structures built from the 19th century to the 1940s.
The Chicago Park District's Jefferson Park, with a view of the field house designed by Clarence Hatzfeld. Jefferson Park is a 7-acre (28,000 m 2) park operated by the Chicago Park District. The park, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places is located on the site of the Esdohr Farm.
Website. Official website. Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in July 2004, is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) section of northwestern Grant Park.
The city of Chicago gave the Lincoln Park Conservation Association permission to improve the community in the 1960s. [3] In 1974, the Chicago Park District acquired the land and began constructing a park. [3] Lyman Frank Baum, a children's author and the creator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was a resident of Chicago’s Humboldt Park in the ...
Douglass Park, formerly Douglas Park, is a part of the Chicago Park District on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.Established in 1869 and initially named South Park, [1] its 173 acres (0.70 km 2) are in the North Lawndale community area with an official address of 1401 S. Sacramento Drive.