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swimming, it has a changing house LAWRENCE AVE
and shower facilities. Other activities UPTOWN
include volleyball, sailboat and jet ski LAKE SHORE DRIVE
rentals, and a large number of trails IRVING PARK RD
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for running and biking. The vast ADDISON ST 41 Lake
playing fields wedged between the Michigan
sand and Lake Shore Drive are the LINCOLN AVE
domain of Hispanic soccer clubs: on
CLARK STREET
weekends their numbers draw Latin Chicago River
food and balloon vendors. Kayak
rentals launch here in summer. NORTH AVENUE
DIVISION STREET
Washington Square
7 CHICAGO STREET 41
GRAND AVENUE
MAP K2
Located opposite the historic WASHINGTON BLVD STREET
Newberry Library, Washington DOWNTOWN
Square is a prime plot of Gold Coast STATE
HALSTED ST
for resting tired feet and gazing at ROOSEVELT ROAD
the handsome 1892 building. 18TH ST
The park’s ample benches tend to CHINATOWN
draw bookish sorts and picnicking PILSEN
office workers at lunchtime. ARCHER AVE BRONZEVILLE
Lincoln Park
8 BRIDGEPORT Burnham
MAP F3
PERSHING ROAD
Park
The greenway Lincoln Park stretches LAKE SHORE DRIVE
from North Avenue up to Hollywood ASHLAND AVENUE HALSTED STREET 90 AVENUE 41
Avenue, a recreational apron between 94 KENWOOD
lakefront and housing. In Chicago’s DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY MICHIGAN
infancy, the southern portion of the 55TH STREET
park was a cemetery for Civil War
dead, which were later exhumed and 0 km 2 63RD STREET
interred elsewhere to make way for 0 miles 2 67TH STREET
the park. Now Lincoln Park is the
North Side’s counterpart to Grant
Northerly Island
Park. Popular attractions such as 9
Lincoln Park Zoo (see pp30–31), the MAP M6
Lincoln Park Conservatory (see p88), A peninsula jutting out in Lake
and Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Michigan south of the Alder
(see p87) supplement the beaches, Planetarium, Northerly Island is
harbors, playing fields, and bike paths. home to prairie plants, walking trails,
and fountains. In summer it hosts
concerts and special events at an
outdoor stage that can accom modate
30,000 people on its lawn.
Ping Tom Memorial Park
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MAP K6
Named in honor of a prominent
Chinese businessman and civic leader,
this rolling green space in Chinatown
features Chinese design elements
and public access to the river. A
boat house offers kayak rentals in
summer, and the field house hosts
South Pond Pavilion, Lincoln Park an indoor gym and swimming pool.

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