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1301 West 52nd Street

Chicago, IL 60609 (map)

Sherman Park was one of ten revolutionary Chicago parks which opened to the public in 1905 The city s population had grown from 300 00 in 1870 to 2 million by 1905 but less than 20...

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Sherman Park was one of ten revolutionary Chicago parks which opened to the public in 1905 The city s population had grown from 300 00 in 1870 to 2 million by 1905 but less than 200 acres of new parkland had been created during that period The noisy overcrowded immigrant neighborhoods in the center of the city were far away from the existing parks South Park Commission superintendent J Frank Foster envisioned a new type of park that would provide social services as well as breathing spaces to these areas Nationally renowned landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers and architects Daniel H Burnham and Co designed the whole system of new parks In addition to Sherman Park these were Ogden Palmer Bessemer and Hamilton Parks and Russell Davis Armour Cornell and Mark White Squares Mark White Square is now known as McGuane Park
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