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These parks, which included the nation’s first fieldhouses, were described by President Theodore Roosevelt as “the most notable civic achievement in any American city.” During this period, Prairie style visionary Jens Jensen served as the General Superintendent and Chief Landscape Architect for the entire West Park System. architects and Olmsted Brothers landscape architects to pioneer new neighborhood parks that offered recreational opportunities as well as social and educational programs. The South Park Commissioners worked with D.H. Olmsted also helped transform Jackson Park into the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and return the site to parkland after the fair closed.Īt the turn of the century, each of the three commissions made efforts to expand its park system to respond to the city’s rapidly growing population. to design its park system, now known as Washington Park, Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. The South Park Commission selected the nationally renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. The West Chicago Park Commissioners hired William Le Baron Jenney to lay out Humboldt, Garfield and Douglas Parks. The Lincoln Park Commissioners hired Swain Nelson and Olof Benson to expand their existing park and to construct the old Lake Shore Drive. The three agencies each commissioned their own designers to create pleasure grounds and interlinking boulevards that could be enjoyed by the whole city. Although the three park commissions operated independently, the overall goal was to create a unified ribbon of green that would encircle Chicago. This system was spurred by the adoption of three separate acts of state legislation establishing the Lincoln, South, and West Chicago Park Commissions in 1869. As Chicagoans increasingly recognized the need for parks throughout the city, a movement emerged which led to the formation of one of the nation’s first comprehensive park and boulevard systems. John Rauch, led a successful campaign to set aside a 60-acre section of a public cemetery as parkland, marking the beginnings of Lincoln Park. On the city’s north side, a physician, Dr. Grant Park began as a strip of green space along Lake Michigan known as Lake Park. The earliest parks were created in Chicago between the 1830s and 1860s. Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., Jens Jensen, Alfred Caldwell and Lorado Taft. Many of the parks were originally created or shaped by nationally acclaimed architects, planners, landscape designers or artists, such as Daniel H. For nearly two centuries, Chicago's citizens have rallied for the creation and protection of parkland, and many of the city's parks have served as testing grounds for important ideas and social movements. In the 1830s, Chicago's emerging government adopted the motto "Urbs in horto," a Latin phrase meaning "City in a Garden." The slogan proved to be prophetic. Historical Note Written by Julia Bachrach, Former Chicago Park District Historian When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Chicago Park District Records: Photographs,, Special Collections, Chicago Public LibraryĪrmstrong-Johnston, LLC, 2016 and Johanna Russ and Morag Walsh, 2016-2018 10,000 of the approximately 62,000 images are available to view on CPL's website.

Researchers must speak with an archivist to view hard copy versions at least 24 hours in advance of use. JPG versions are the primary mode of access.

Transferred to the library by the Chicago Park District in 2017

(Bulk, black and white prints 8x10 inches and smaller).