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The largest public park on Chicago's Northwest Side, it has many recreational facilities including six tennis courts, two playgrounds, a slab for in-line skating, a bike path, a nature walk, five baseball fields, two combination football/soccer fields and two fieldhouses— one housing a gymnasium and the other a cultural arts building. The ...
Jonquil Park, Chicago, Illinois. Jonquil Park is a medium-sized public park of 3.25 acres located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.The park is situated at the intersection of West Wrightwood Avenue and North Sheffield Avenue, offering a green space and recreational area for local residents and visitors, including a public playground set with water toys ...
The LEGOLAND Discovery Center Chicago is an indoor family entertainment center located in The Streets of Woodfield shopping center in Schaumburg, Illinois. Legoland Discovery Center Chicago is owned and operated by British leisure group Merlin Entertainments .
Portage Park is the childhood home of Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., the late Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago (1937-2015; served 1997–2014; cardinal, 1998; president of the U.S. bishops, 2007–2010; formerly, Bishop of Yakima, WA, and Archbishop of Portland, OR). He grew up in a working class area of the neighborhood in a small red ...
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) Located on the south side; the proposed location for the 2016 Summer Olympics Stadium
Avondale Park is a 1.7 acre park in the Avondale community area of North Side, Chicago, Illinois. The park stretches between School Street to the south to the Kennedy Expressway to the north and east, with the alley behind Drake Street to the West. The park has recreational facilities including a playground, a fieldhouse, as well as an outdoor ...
Garfield Park is a 184-acre (0.74 km 2) urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney in the 1870s and is the oldest of the three original parks developed by the West Side parks commission on the Chicago park and boulevard plan (Humboldt Park, Garfield, and Douglass Park).
Independence Park, officially Park #83 of the Chicago Park District, is a 7.16-acre (2.90 ha) recreational area in the Irving Park neighborhood of North Side, Chicago, Illinois. [2] First opened in 1914, the park has been the traditional location of Independence Day celebrations for Irving Park residents since 1903.