Peace Garden - Chicago, IL, USA
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adgorn
N 41° 57.520 W 087° 38.740
16T E 446492 N 4645388
The Peace Garden, a limestone fountain and seating area with plants and trees, is along the bike path on Chicago's north lakefront, at Marine Drive and Buena Avenue.
Waymark Code: WM6R98
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2009
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More about the Peace Garden from the August 5, 1990 Chicago Tribune:
"In 1988, the Chicago Park District and Artists for Sharing, an intercultural group whose executive director was Sharon Ruth Lubin, jointly began to oversee a four-year pilot project to create an enduring peace garden.
In 1986 the Greenpeace environmental group designated the spot a peace garden, on the site of a garden that had graced 4200 N. Marine Drive in the early 1930s. But the gesture was more symbolic, because no long-term plans were made for maintenance until two years later.
Then the park district and the artist organization, with Lubin as coordinator, excavated the original garden. The design for that garden was unsigned but can be attributed to either landscape-architect Alfred Caldwell or his park district predecessor, Jens Jensen. In the first garden, walls of limestone ledges and a trickling waterfall fit snugly into a sloping, verdant landscape.
The Children's Peace Council, an offshoot of the artist organization, has been helping with restoration."
I grew up in this neighborhood and used to play in the old stone "garden" that led us out into Lincoln Park back in the 1960's. The fountain never worked and the stone was overgrown with weeds and in disrepair. So it is wonderful to see the restored fountain finally flowing and garden cleaned up and being used for such a noble purpose.
The Peace Garden is flanked by peace poles to the north and south, planted by:
The Peace School
3121 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60657-3111
www.peaceschool.org
I appreciate the efforts of The Peace School and am glad they brought these poles to my attention. See waymark WM6R95.
Text on Monument/Memorial Sign or Plaque:
Sign text:
Peace Garden
Inscription on peace poles:
May Peace Be in Chicago, May Peace Be in Illinois, Peace in the United States, May Peace Prevail on Earth
Website about the Peace Monument/Memorial: Not listed
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