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	South Chicago :: Parks Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Chicago has a unique park system which has expanded throughout the years and it includes about 550 parks.
		One of the first parks introduced to the city was Dearborn Park which was named in honor of General Henry Dearborn in 1839.
		Parks now and in the past have offered the community a safe place to for children to play and for social activities.
	www.neiu.edu /~reseller/scprkintro.html (106 words)

	Parks of Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over 220 parks and facilities cover more than 7,300 acres (30 km²) of land throughout the city, all managed by the Chicago Park District.
		This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors, the nations largest municipal harbor system, along with dozens of forest preserves located along the original city limits and in suburban areas of Cook County.
		Lincoln Park - This is one of the more unique parks in terms of geography, because while it is centrally located in the Lincoln Park community area it spans many different neighborhoods throughout the city as it is nestled between Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parks_of_Chicago (389 words)

	Chicago, Chicago Urban Parks Program: The Trust for Public Land
		Chicago's tradition of parks and boulevards stretches over a century, providing the city with a world famous lakefront and its motto "Urbs in Horto" or "City in a Garden." While these parks and boulevards were remarkable achievements in the past, the city's growth over time has left new and changing neighborhoods without sufficient open space.
		Working with the Chicago Park District, the Department of Planning and Development, and local neighborhood organizations, TPL is helping to expand and create new neighborhood parks, add more green space along the Chicago River, create new school campus parks, and assist the city as it creates a major open space reserve near Lake Calumet.
		Because the current park is not large enough to serve all recreational needs, the city plans to expand the park so it can fully meet the needs of the changing Chinatown community with soccer and ball fields, a field house and a swimming pool.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=10666&folder_id=588 (1437 words)

	Docket No. 93852, Friends of the Parks v. Chicago Park District (Il. S. Ct.)
		The Park District is also authorized to enter into a lease, license, or agreement with a sports team or involving a "facility" upon such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Park District.
		In this regard, we note that, because Burnham Park was not dedicated to a particular use or purpose, it is within the province of the legislature to determine its use.
		Developing additional parking could benefit the members of the public who choose to attend events at the racetrack, as spectators may often have to wait in long lines of traffic to park their vehicles and again to depart the facility.
	www.state.il.us /court/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2003/February/Opinions/Html/93852.htm (5477 words)

	Chicago 1968 Democratic National Convention: An Introduction
		On the streets and in the parks of Chicago the social conflicts of the Sixties were on display.
		Chicago changed minds, Chicago changed politics, Chicago changed the Left, Chicago changed the media, Chicago changed those who were here and those who watched from far away, and Chicago changed Chicago.
		For Chicago, Chicago '68 weakened support for the last of the big-city bosses and fanned the flames of political reform.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1553 (486 words)

	Chicago Life
		A little south of the Point are the South Shore Cultural Center and Jackson Park, with more than two square miles of open land, beaches, a yacht club, a driving range, and a public 18-hole golf course.
		Washington Park, with playing fields, playgrounds, and an indoor swimming pool, is just to the west of campus.
		Admission is free; the park is closed in winter.
	chicagolife.uchicago.edu /city/parks_zoos_gardens.shtml (443 words)

	Parks & Recreation: New lights shine on Chicago's parks - Chicago, Illinois, Park District
		Chicago's parks have seen the light -- $18.5 million in new indoor and outdoor lights which are improving visibility and security while producing savings in energy and maintenance costs.
		A recent survey published in the Chicago Tribune showed a 39 percent increase in the number of residents who feel their local park is safer.
		The Park District's lighting program kicked off in 1995, when older, inefficient lights at park field houses, nanatoriums and gymnasiums were replaced with new, energy-saving bulbs and fixtures.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1145/is_n7_v32/ai_19649722 (442 words)

	University of Chicago Law School > Chicago
		Chicago is a world-class city known for its jazz and blues, sophisticated yet affordable restaurants, theater and improvisational comedy, professional sports, modern architecture, and waterfront diversions.
		The Chicago Park District boasts 7400 acres of green space, 26 miles of shoreline, 520 parks, 75 acres of gardens, 800 ball fields, 250 field houses, 90 swimming pools, 10 Olympic-size skating rinks, 8 golf/mini-golf courses, a dozen major museums, a free public zoo, and much more.
		Chicago is the home of the first skyscrapers and boasts the tallest building in the country, the Sears Tower.
	www.law.uchicago.edu /Life/chicago.html (720 words)

	Parks of Chicago Information
		Over 220 parks and facilities cover more than 7,300 acres (30 km²) of land throughout the city, all managed by the Chicago Park District.
		This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors, the nations largest municipal harbor system, along with dozens of forest preserves located along the original city limits and in suburban areas of Cook County.
		Lincoln Park - This is one of the more unique parks in terms of geography, because while it is centrally located in the Lincoln Park community area it spans many different neighborhoods throughout the city as it is nestled between Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan.
	www.bookrags.com /Parks_of_Chicago (364 words)

	Central, Interview: Chicago Parks Chief, David Doig : The Trust for Public Land
		Chicago is on the higher side of spending.
		There is no reason why we have to be in the parking business or the harbor business, but they are a good source of revenue for us.
		In Hyde Park at the 51st, we have already added a 100 feet of new parkland as part of the revetment already.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=5181&folder_id=208 (1072 words)

	Riverview Park - Chicago, IL
		The 74 acres bordered by Western and Belmont avenues, the Chicago River, and Lane Tech High School were known affectionately as "Riverview" to at least three generations of Chicagoans from as early as 1904 to as recent as 1967.
		German Sharpshooter Park, as the area that would become Riverview was known as during the late 1800’s, was a shooting range and picnic grounds owned by the wealthy Schmidt family.
		For whatever reason, the park was purchased by a LaSalle Street investment firm on October 3, 1967 for an estimated 6.5 million dollars and promptly demolished.
	www.defunctparks.com /parks/IL/riverview/riverviewpark.htm (1696 words)

	Chicago - AoIR Wiki
		Chicago’s outdoor spaces are wonderful, comfortable and friendly places for a stroll, a snack or relaxation.
		Chicago is a city of neighborhoods, and the Foundation also offers tours of many of them (some walking, some by bus).
		I would suggest trying Chicago pizza (usually listed on a menu as the “pan” or “Sicilian” style), and the top two places in my opinion are Pizzeria Uno and Due (http://www.unos.com) (I count these as one restaurant as they are within a block of one another and owned by the same family) and Lou Malnati’s.
	wiki.aoir.org /index.php?title=Chicago (2290 words)

	AllPolitics - Democratic National Convention
		The primary cause of the demonstrations and the subsequent riots during the 1968 Chicago convention was opposition to the Vietnam War.
		The violence centered on two things: the Chicago police forcing protesters out of areas where they were not permitted to be; and protesters clashing with police, and their reinforcements, as they tried to march to the convention site.
		When the park was officially closed, Chicago police bombed protesters with tear gas and moved in with billy-clubs to forcibly remove them from the park.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml (2110 words)

	A History of Chicago's Northerly Island
		Chicago’s Northerly Island was to be the first in a series of islands envisioned by the famed planner and architect Daniel Burnham as a unique island parkway for public recreation.
		However, for over 50 years this vision went neglected, as Northerly Island—one of the Chicago Park District’s most significant lakefront assets—was set aside not for public recreation, but for limited interests as a private airfield.
		Currently — Openlands is working with the Chicago Park District and other stakeholders in the planning process to transform Northerly Island into a world-class lakefront nature park of unparalleled quality.
	www.openlands.org /policy.asp?pgid=247 (387 words)

	Chicago - National Parks International Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Chicago's not a bad spot to spend a few weeks, which is just as well, because I found myself positioned there for training with my new job for nine weeks.
		Chicago is serviced by two airports: O'Hare (the big, famous one) and Midway (the one...
		I knew of Chicago of course, but I didn't know much about the place, so I booked my trip on the assumption that a big city would have stuff to do, and I would find out what that stuff was when I...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /national-parks-international/chicago (338 words)

	Chicago Park District: Parks
		The Chicago Park District's 9 lakefront harbors stretch from Lincoln Park in the northern part of the city to Jackson Park in the south.
		The Chicago Park District is in the midst of planning the future of the Chicago Harbor System.
		The Chicago Park District Tennis Association (CPDTA), founded in l943, is an independent, non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to use the public park system to promote competitive tennis throughout the city.
	www.chicagoparkdistrict.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.home.cfm (548 words)

	Boarders get competition from skiers in terrain parks \| Chicago Tribune
		Especially at night, when most of the park is softly illuminated, and 2- to 5-inch flames are shooting down the double pipes.
		Terrain parks are hot, particularly among so-called "jibbers," those boarders and now skiers who are the snow-riding equivalent of daredevil skateboarders.
		It's a 30-acre terrain park 35 miles west of Denver that is scheduled to open in December.
	www.chicagotribune.com /travel/chi-051030skisnowboards,0,4785341.story (1251 words)

	Labor Market Profiles: Goose Island Enterprise & Chicago Technology Industrial Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The target area was delineated based on both proximity to the industrial parks and that area with the greatest employment needs.
		In addition to its implications for future development of the industrial parks, the analysis that follows may also have applicability to the development of enterprise zones.
		A computer simulation model is used to estimate the residences of new workers in the parks in the absence of any policy intervention.
	www.uic.edu /cuppa/uicued/Publications/economicdev/industrialretention/EXECSMRY/ex297(4).html (499 words)

	ABC7Chicago.com: Chicago church remembers Rosa Parks
		Rosa Parks said it was the murder of a Chicago boy, Emmett Till, that was on her mind that day she refused to give up her seat on that Montgomery bus.
		Members of Chicago's Muntu dance theater reminded celebrants this is an occasion to applaud the accomplishments of an individual, one small woman whose actions sparked the civil rights movement.
		Rosa Parks in the subsequent 381-day bus boycott proved African-Americans, through their choices, have the power to initiate great change.
	abclocal.go.com /wls/story?section=local&id=3587831 (409 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago -- Parks and Beaches Articles
		The man was rushed to the Washington Park hospital and no report was made to the police.
		At the Washington Park hospital it was stated that there was no evidence of the man being drunk that they could see.
		By the time the taxicab had arrived practically every one in the park at the time was gathered around the scene of the tragedy.
	chicago.urban-history.org /sites/parks/pk_ar_08.htm (330 words)

	Chicago's Parks in Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Millennium Park, as you might have surmised by its name, is relatively new.
		It is worth mentioning that Millennium Park is adjacent to Grant Park, which is home to the world famous Buckingham Fountain.
		Grant Park offers many fun activities during the summer, inclusive of orchestral concerts which treat visitors to free outdoor performances of classical music and numerous annual musical festivals, i.e.
	www.chicago-luxury-homes.net /chicagos-parks.html (470 words)

	Jazz Age Chicago--Parks and Pleasure Grounds
		For outdoor amusement during the early twentieth century, Chicagoans headed for the city's parks and beaches.
		Though large city parks had been established in the mid-nineteenth century, other outdoor recreational spaces, including cemeteries, amusement parks, and beer gardens remained in private ownership, much to the dismay of those concerned about the unchaperoned mixing of men and women or the casual intermingling of people from different classes, races, or ethnic groups.
		Public control of the lakefront represented in part an attempt to reign in the behavior of less conservative beach-goers, including those who used the beaches as a venue for love-making or the procurement of illicit booze.
	chicago.urban-history.org /ven/pks/pks.shtml (247 words)

	Chicago Parks Rediscovered, Frank Dina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With this exquisite collection of color photographs of Chicago's parks, photographer and Chicago native, Frank Dina has cast a fresh eye on these natural gems that dot our urban landscape.
		The Prairie style architecture that is found in many of Chicago's parks is both a reflection of the concrete urban landscape within which the parks are located.
		This is an impressive re-discovery and re-affirmation of these islands of peace, beauty and tranquility amidst the bustle and dynamism that is Chicago.
	nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-912223-02-2 (168 words)

	Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities - The World's Best and Worst Parks
		We know all of these parks and squares very well -- meaning we have studied them at various times of the year, we've worked on campaigns to improve them, or we have visited them at least five times.
		We want to hear your opinions on what are the great parks and squares of the world and which ones are overrated and in need of serious overhaul.
		Observing the world's best parks is inspiring, but learning from the missed opportunities of underperforming parks can be even more helpful in creating great public spaces.
	www.pps.org /info/newsletter/september2004/september2004_best_worst (914 words)

	Enjoy Illinois: Illinois Bureau of Tourism Official Website
		The Museum Campus is a scenic 57-acre lakefront park that connects three of Chicago's most popular destinations: the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, The Field Museum and the John G. Shedd Aquarium.
		Chicago is a big sports town, so it's no surprise that it's also home to two major league baseball teams.
		Cheer the Chicago Cubs on the North Side and the Chicago White Sox on the South Side.
	www.enjoyillinois.com /topspots/chicago.aspx (580 words)

	OnTheCommons.org \| No Joke: Copyright Fees Required for Taking Photos in Chicago Parks
		Now comes word from the Chicago Reader (January 28; subscribers only) that the managers of Chicago's Millennium Park require a permit and payment of a fee in order to take photos in a Chicago park.
		A brief exchange ensued, with Wimmer laughing at the absurdity of the request — “you’ve got to be kidding” — and the guards solemnly insisting that a permit was required.
		Mind you, this policy applies to a park for which $270 million in public funds were paid.
	onthecommons.org /node/499 (897 words)

	Chicagoist: Skinner Park: A Model For All Chicago Parks
		One nice thing about Chicago is the parks, even if the Chicago Park District isn't a city department void of gratuitous corruption.
		The council has already raised $2,000 of its own from the proceeds of its 2006 Skinner Park Dog Calendar, so now the park is well on its way to quenching its water needs.
		The council's Dog Advocacy Committee would probably be happy to hear that, after years of stalling, the park district has finally—officially—signed off on the Grant Park dog park.
	www.chicagoist.com /archives/2006/02/20/skinner_park_a_model_for_all_chicago_parks.php (617 words)

	Public Building Commission of Chicago \| PBC Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		All along the lakefront and throughout Chicago, the Public Building Commission and the Chicago Park District have joined forces to bring new recreational facilities to Chicagoans and to make substantial improvements to facilities.
		For example, activity rooms, a gymnasium, and fitness rooms may be added to a multi-purpose field house, while a beach house might receive a much-needed facelift that includes new restrooms, concession stands, and outdoor showers.
		Once completed, the new and rehabbed parks and buildings can accommodate more residents of all ages, while introducing new programming and activities, such as concerts and fitness classes.
	www.pbcchicago.com /subhtml/parks.asp (133 words)

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