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    Parks in Chicago include open spaces and facilities, developed and managed by the Chicago Park District. The City of Chicago devotes 8.5% of its total...
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    is a list of parks in Chicago. There are 614 parks in the city, covering 8.2 % of its total land acreage. Most of Chicago's city parks are administered...
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    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...
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    two parks, a long excavation was made on the Midway, but water has never been allowed in. It is connected to Grant Park by Burnham Park. The Chicago Lakefront...
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    Grant Park is a large urban park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Located within the city's central business district, the 319-acre (1...
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    Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, located on and near the shore of Lake Michigan 7 miles (11 km) south of the Loop....
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    Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967. It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south...
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    Lincoln Park is a designated community area on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is located west of Lincoln Park. In 1824, the United States Army...
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    Rogers Park is a community on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois and one of the city's 77 municipally recognized community areas. Located 9 miles (14 km)...
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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...
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    Uptown is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. Uptown's boundaries are Foster Avenue to the north; Lake Michigan to the east; Montrose Avenue (Ravenswood...
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    The historic Chicago park and boulevard system is a ring of parks connected by wide, planted-median boulevards that winds through the north, west, and...
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    in the city's Chicago Lawn neighborhood. The park is named for Father Jacques Marquette (1637–1675). Marquette Park is part of a system of 14 parks designed...
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    Humboldt Park, one of 77 designated community areas, is on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The Humboldt Park neighborhood is known for its dynamic...
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    Irving Park is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas, and is located on the Northwest Side. It is bounded by the Chicago River on the...
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    built a fieldhouse, boathouse, and music pavilion. In 2018, the Chicago Park District and Chicago Parks Foundation partnered with the Garden Conservancy...
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    others. In the 1910s, the park was one of the only racially integrated parks in the city. In 2006, the park was the starting point for Chicago's wing of...
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    connect a number of Chicago parks. The boulevards and the parks were authorized by the Illinois legislature in 1869. A number of Chicago neighborhoods emerged...
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    Norwood Park, Oriole Park, and Union Ridge. The community area contains the oldest extant building in Chicago, the Noble–Seymour–Crippen House, built in 1833...
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    62528°W / 41.89694; -87.62528 Park Tower is a skyscraper located at 800 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Completed in 2000 and standing at 844 feet...
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    Edison Park (formerly Canfield) is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago. It is located on the Northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It...
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  • who coauthored the 1909 Plan of Chicago. Perry, Grace (2018-08-22). "These are best dog parks in Chicago". Curbed Chicago. Archived from the original on...
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    election to the office of mayor. Parks in Chicago List of Chicago parks "Seward (William) Park | Chicago Park District". www.chicagoparkdistrict.com....
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    twentieth century, opened the park as part of its efforts to add neighborhood parks in Northwest Chicago. As the park's original layout and landscape...
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    Avalon Park, located on the south side of the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois, is one of the city's 77 semi-official community areas and is named after...
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    Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km2) park of the same name, stretching east-west from...
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    to connect the two parks with a new outer belt of parks enclosing a shoreline lagoon.: 6  Daniel Burnham's 1909 "Plan of Chicago" renewed the call for...
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    Park is a neighborhood in the West Town community area of the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, west of the Kennedy Expressway, east of Humboldt Park,...
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    site in 1985. The dog-friendly park includes areas for baseball, gyms, a spraypool, a water playground, and a walking path. West Town, Chicago Parks of...
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    Morgan Park, located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, is one of the city's 77 official community areas. Morgan Park is...
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