Tag: Chicago Park District
Jens Jensen, the Frank Lloyd Wright of landscape architecture
Many of you may have allowed Jens Jensen's 150th birthday to pass unnoticed in 2010. I know I did. And some of you may not know of Jens Jensen, an [...]
A visit to the park and dog park at 235 Van Buren
The long-awaited park immediately adjacent to 235 Van Buren in the Loop appears to be in the final stages of construction. The park is tentatively [...]
The history of Hollywood Park
I don’t know when neighborhood kids stopped going to Hollywood Park. Maybe the opening of the much larger and better appointed Peterson Park on th [...]
Lincoln Park's "new civic jewel"
This morning Lynn Becker published the first part of a two-part reflection on Lincoln Park's South Pond and the new Studio Gang-designed Nature Boar [...]
Name the nabe of this public park
Feel free to identify this park in the comments below, but if you want a YoChicago yo-yo, you'll have to tell us which neighborhood it's in. (The [...]
A weekend walk through Portage Park
Saturday was a great day for a bike ride, so I pedaled up Milwaukee Avenue from Bucktown through Logan Square, Avondale, and Irving Park, eventually [...]
A walk through Oz Park
Last week I took the Brown Line up to Armitage and walked a few blocks east to Oz Park, one of the great public spaces of the Lincoln Park community [...]
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