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  2. Chicago Park District - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink - Wikipedia

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    As of 2007, Millennium Park, which is located in the northwest corner of Grant Park, trails only Navy Pier as a Chicago tourist attraction. [9] The earliest plans for Millennium Park were unveiled by Chicago's mayor, Richard M. Daley, in March 1998 and included "a reflecting pool that would double as a skating rink in winter". [10]

  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. Friends of the Parks - Wikipedia

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    Friends of the Parks (FOTP) is a non-profit organization in Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 1975, it acts as a watchdog group and environmental advocate for the Chicago area. Specifically, it monitors the condition and safety of the Chicago Park District and the forest preserves of Cook County. FOTP's office is in downtown Chicago.

  6. Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum - Wikipedia

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    After a century at a nearby location, where it was the first of what eventually became eleven Chicago museum-in-the-parks, the academy built and opened its present museum named for benefactor Peggy Notebaert in 1999 at the intersection of Fullerton Parkway and Cannon Drive in Lincoln Park. [1]

  7. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture - Wikipedia

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    The museum complex and the Park (named for Alexander von Humboldt) [10] were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [11] The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2008. [12] The stables and receptory were built by architects Fromman & Jebsen in 1895 as part of the development of the park. [13]

  8. Grant Park Music Festival - Wikipedia

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    The Grant Park Music Festival (formerly the Grant Park Concerts) is a ten-week classical music concert series held annually in Chicago, Illinois, United States. [1] It features the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Chorus along with guest performers and conductors, and is one of the only free outdoor classical-music concert series in ...

  9. Oz Park - Wikipedia

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    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 ...