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In 1891, J. Frank Foster became the superintendent of the south Chicago park system. He advocated the spreading out of parks into working-class neighborhoods. These generally smaller parks would nonetheless be filled with playing fields and other facilities particularly 'field house' buildings.
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Members of the Arts Partners provide quality cultural content to the parks of Chicago in exchange for the use of space within the park district. These Arts Partners include nationally recognized arts organizations serving park patrons and citizens of the public.
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The Chicago Park District also maintains many special use facilities for activities such as golfing, boating, boxing, skating and baseball, as well as a number of specialty parks devoted entirely to dogs. In addition to maintaining its parks and facilities, the
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As Chicago grew, demand increased for public spaces, but the Chicago Common Council did little to address these requests. Instead, real estate investors realized that small public squares could increase the value of their property. In 1842,
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holds thousands of community, holiday, nature, sports, music, arts, and cultural events and festivals for city residents every year, many featuring performances and workshops provided by nationally recognized "Arts Partners" such as the
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manages 220 facilities in 570 parks covering more than 7,600 acres (3,100 ha) of land throughout the city. This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors over 24 miles (39 km) of lakefront, rendering the
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the nation's largest municipal harbor system, along with 31 beaches, 17 historic lagoons, 86 pools, 90 playgrounds, 90 gardens, 66 fitness centers, nine ice skating rinks, 10 museums, a zoological park, and two plant conservatories.
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became the first of these ventures, developed by the American Land Company. Similar projects were completed with Goudy Square Park in 1847 and Union Park in 1853. Although the Cook County Court agreed to allocate a major park on the
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devotes 8.5% of its total land acreage to parkland, which ranked it 13th among high-density population cities in the United States in 2012. Since the 1830s, the official motto of Chicago has been
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and Park Row (11th Street) was designated "Public Ground—A Common to Remain Forever Open, Clear and Free of Any Buildings, or Other Obstruction, whatever." This lot was soon expanded to
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about the possible public health impact of having a large cemetery on the lake. This new park was also named Lake Park; however, due to confusion over its name, it was renamed to
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Chicago's second large-scale allocation of parkland came in 1860, when a large section of the City Cemetery was re-designated as a park. This was due to concerns led by
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Similar to other areas of Chicago's built environment, a sizeable number of structures in Chicago's Parks are of exceptional architectural value.
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lakefront kept as public open space, convinced the commissioners to designate two lots as public area. The land east of Michigan Avenue between
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in 1865, in honor of the recently deceased President. Slowly, all of the graves were moved from the cemetery, greatly expanding the park.
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These facilities would provide all manner of recreation space and services to people of the surrounding neighborhoods. Olmstead's sons,
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In 1836, a year before Chicago was incorporated, the Board of Canal Commissioners held public auctions for the city's first
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in 1901. A second parcel, west of Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington Streets, was designated Dearborn Park.
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community area it spans many different neighborhoods throughout the north side as it is nestled between
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One grave, the Couch Tomb, was never removed from the site and serves as a reminder of the park's past.
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in the 1850s and 1860s turned new attention to the role that parks can play in urban development.
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designed more of these fieldhouses than any other architect, as well as many of the homes in
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An 1886 map detailing the system of parks and boulevards that would circle the city.
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in 1857, these plans were rescinded two years later, and public outcry continued.
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The dominant theme in many of Chicago's park fieldhouses are variants of either
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Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration Of The Grant Park Music Festival
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Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
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was created from a revision of this article dated 6 January 2006
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The green-space afforded by Chicago's parks is supplemented by the
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include open spaces and facilities, developed and managed by the
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with a view of the fieldhouse designed by Clarence Hatzfeld
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and the site of a famous rally by pianist and statesman
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at the intersection of Irving Park Rd. and Central Ave.
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Index

Parks of Chicago

Ping Tom Memorial Park
Chicago Park District
Chicago
Lincoln Park
landscape architects
Daniel Burnham
Frederick Law Olmsted
Jens Jensen
Dwight Perkins
Frank Gehry
Lorado Taft
lots
Lake Michigan
Madison Street
Randolph Street
Grant Park
Washington Square Park
South Side
John Henry Rauch
Lincoln Park

Haussmann's renovation of Paris
Greensward Plan
William Butler Ogden
South Side
system of parks and boulevards
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
John Charles Olmsted

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