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Marquette Park: Chicago Lawn: 315 acres (127 ha) 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 Square, also known as Washington Square Park, is a park in Chicago, Illinois.A registered historic landmark that is better known by its nickname Bughouse Square (derived from the slang of bughouse referring to mental health facilities), it was the most celebrated open air free-speech center in the country as well as a popular Chicago tourist attraction.
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General Daniel Adams Butterfield, author of the bugle call, Taps, which is a standard component for concluding for US military funerals, stands on a rock pedestal as a larger-than-life-sized bronze statue by Gutzon Borglum—who is said to have been so annoyed by commissioning committees numerous demands for changes to the sculpture, that he marked his signature on the top of the general's ...
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.
Buckingham Fountain is located in Grant Park in the Loop. When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it chose the motto Urbs in Horto, a Latin phrase which means "City in a Garden". Today, the Chicago Park District consists of more than 570 parks with over 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) of municipal parkland.
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.
The Sheridan Park Historic District is a residential historic district in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Developed between 1891 and 1929, the district is a collection of single-family homes, small apartment buildings, and a handful of larger apartment hotels .