Tag: Chicago Park District
![Jens Jensen, the Frank Lloyd Wright of landscape architecture Jens Jensen, the Frank Lloyd Wright of landscape architecture](https://i.yochicago.com/images/hpmain/306/286306.jpg?preset=yosize)
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 A visit to the park and dog park at 235 Van Buren](https://i.yochicago.com/images/hpmain/070/286070.jpg?preset=yosize)
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 The history of Hollywood Park](http://francesarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/scan0034.jpg)
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" Lincoln Park's "new civic jewel"](https://wibiti.com/blogthumbs/hpmain/796/274796.jpg)
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 Name the nabe of this public park](https://wibiti.com/blogthumbs/hpmain/625/274625.jpg)
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 A weekend walk through Portage Park](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XKlwE2mlGO4/hqdefault.jpg)
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 A walk through Oz Park](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eJLNOFSVjK8/hqdefault.jpg)
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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