Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
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Shorelander
N 41° 55.522 W 087° 38.149
16T E 447281 N 4641685
A 1200 acre park on the north shore of Chicago.
Waymark Code: WM6PVR
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2009
Views: 11
From
Wikipedia
"Lincoln Park is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km², 1.875 mi²) park along Chicago, Illinois' lakefront facing Lake Michigan. The park stretches from North Avenue (1600 N) on the south to Foster (5200 N), just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at North Hollywood Avenue. It is Chicago's largest public park. It has many recreational facilities including 15 baseball areas, 6 basketball courts, 2 softball courts, 35 tennis courts, 163 volley ball courts, field houses, and a golf course. It includes a number of harbours with boating facilities, as well as public beaches. There are landscaped gardens, a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, and a theater on the lake with regular outdoor performances during the summer."
Lincoln Park started as the City cemetery in 1843, and continued as such for the next 21 years. In 1864 the City began to convert it into a park. This waymark is situated near the southern section of the park, by the zoo and an information stand.