Lincoln Park, Chicago

Lincoln Park, Chicago

Sprawling over 1208 acres on the shore of Lake Michigan, Lincoln Park is Chicago's largest public park.

Sprawling over 1208 acres on the shore of Lake Michigan, Lincoln Park is Chicago's largest public park. It stretches for 7 miles along the lakefront, from Ohio Street in the south to Ardmore Avenue in the north, with 7 public beaches for swimming and sunbathing – Oak Street and Ohio in Near North, North Avenue in Lincoln Park, Montrose in Uptown, and Thorndale, Hollywood, and Foster in Edgewater. The surrounding neighborhood upto the Chicago River is named after the park, and is a community hotspot with parks, museums, and restaurants. Apart from beautiful landscaped gardens and art installations, Lincoln Park has a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago History Museum, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, North Pond Nature Sanctuary, Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary, and an outdoor theater on the lake. There are facilities for baseball, basketball, boating, soccer, tennis, volleyball, archery, rowing, and golf.

Art installations are scattered throughout the area, of which the most famous is the 'Standing Lincoln' statue of Abraham Lincoln by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Dearborn Street and North Avenue. Other works of note include ✓statue of Alexander Hamilton by John Angel, ✓statue of noted children's storyteller Hans Christian Andersen by Johannes Gelert on Stockton Drive, ✓seated statue of William Shakespeare by William Ordway Partridge, ✓statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe with an eagle on his knee symbolizing his Olympian achievements by Herman Hahn near Diversey Parkway and Stockton Drive, ✓statue of Friedrich Schiller by Ernst Bilhauer Rau near the zoo entrance, ✓Signal of Peace, a bronze equestrian sculpture by Cyrus Edwin Dallin created as part of 'The Epic of the Indian' series, ✓Benjamin Franklin Monument by Richard Henry Park, and ✓monumental memorial to Ulysses S. Grant by Louis Rebisso overlooking Cannon Drive.