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61-517: Eli Bates Fountain , also known as Storks at Play , is a fountain and sculpture in the center of the formal garden outside Lincoln Park 's Conservatory , in Chicago , Illinois . The fountain is composed of a large, circular granite basin, two bronze storks (or, possibly, herons) with outstretched wings and water spewing water from their beaks, three figures that are half-boy and half-fish each holding unwieldy fishes, and bronze reeds and cattails at
122-636: A Nike missile base. The Army camouflaged their missile launchers and barracks behind honeysuckle hedges. When the Army left in the 1970s, bird watchers noticed how the honeysuckle attracted birds. They successfully lobbied the park district for a new preserve. After extensive replanting, the site supports woodland, tall prairie, and lake dune habitat that annually attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds of more than 300 different species. The Uptown Natural Area, opened in 2022, features nature trails through six acres of native prairie and savanna. Lincoln Park
183-912: A golf course ; a driving range; skate park, and areas for horseback riding . Near Montrose Point is Cricket Hill, one of few sledding hills available in Chicago parks. There are seven public beaches for swimming , sunbathing, and beach volleyball along the park's 7-mile shoreline that are guarded during the summer months. The beaches from north to south are, Thorndale, Hollywood, and Foster in Edgewater; Montrose in Uptown; North Avenue in Lincoln Park; and Oak Street and Ohio in Near North. The first City of Chicago public beach, North Avenue Beach, opened in Lincoln Park in 1895. The Lincoln Park Passerelle ,
244-647: A par -36 course. Further south, inland of Lakeshore Drive, is a driving range and miniature golf course. There are three harbors in the Park providing marina and docking facilities for boaters: north to south, they are Montrose in Uptown , Lakeview's Belmont Harbor, and Diversey Harbor in the Lakeview and the Lincoln Park Neighborhoods. Montrose Harbor provides 630 dock facilities and is home to
305-741: A zoo , the Lincoln Park Conservatory , the Chicago History Museum , the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum , the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool , and a theater on the lake with regular outdoor performances held during the summer. In 1860, Lake Park (earlier, Cemetery Park), the precursor of today's park, was established by the city on the lands just to the north of the city's burial ground. Five years later, on June 12, 1865,
366-405: A building owned by J. Young Scammon , a prominent lawyer and member of the society. However, the building and the new collection were again destroyed by fire in 1874. The Chicago Historical Society built a fireproof building on its pre-1871 building-site at 632 North Dearborn Street. The replacement building opened in 1896 and housed the society for thirty-six years. The building was later added to
427-466: A desolate frontier outpost to the bustling city that hosted the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Chicago Room, which overlooks the plaza in Lincoln Park behind the museum building, displays a collection of stained glass. Temporary exhibitions feature objects and artifacts from the collection, covering everything from Chicago art to the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Chicagoans to
488-849: A few beavers . Great blue herons , black-crowned night herons , green herons , mallards , wood ducks , song sparrows and woodpeckers can regularly be spotted at the North Pond Nature Sanctuary. Further north in the park, in the Lake View neighborhood (3600 N), there is the Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary ( 41°56′56″N 87°38′26″W / 41.94889°N 87.64056°W / 41.94889; -87.64056 ( Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary ) ; formerly, Lincoln Park Addison Migratory Bird Sanctuary). First landscaped and constructed with limited public access in
549-502: A footbridge, connected to the beach in 1940 over the newly constructed Lake Shore Drive. The Waveland Avenue Golf Course (now Sydney R. Marovitz Golf Course) in the Uptown and Lakeview, Chicago neighborhoods section of the park provides a lakeside setting for the game. ( 41°57′09″N 87°38′29″W / 41.95250°N 87.64139°W / 41.95250; -87.64139 ( Waveland Avenue Golf Course ) ) Known for its challenging narrow fairways, it offers nine tees on
610-667: A monument erected by Southerners and Chicago friends in 1895 memorializes these Southerners whose earthly remnants remain in the North. Author George Levy believes that remains of many of the Confederate prisoners are still to be found beneath what are currently baseball fields, the former site of the potter's field. From the 1860s through the 1950s the park expanded south and then north along seven miles (11 km) of Chicago's Lakefront. (See reference notes 1, 2 and 3). The establishment of public parkland along all of Chicago's Lakefront
671-474: A result of the poor condition they were in when taken on the battlefield, or of disease and privation existing at the Federal prison. Although the camp was located south of downtown Chicago, near the stockyards , the remains were originally interred at the site of today's Lincoln Park. Today, their gravesites may be found at Oak Woods Cemetery in the southern part of Chicago. A one-acre (4,000 m ) mass grave and
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#1732782843641732-485: A sculpture by Frederick Hibbard . The Fern Room or Fernery was opened in 1895. It contains plants of the forest floor, primarily a vast collection of ferns. The Tropical Room was originally called the stove house. Opened in 1895, it contained an assortment of tropical plants suspended from bark-covered walls. It is now called the Orchid Room and has a collection of approximately 25,000 natural species. The Display House
793-662: A third great story-teller in Lincoln Park. This seated Shakespeare includes a lap for children to climb onto. A bust of Sir Georg Solti , a conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , was also situated in the Lincoln Park Conservatory's formal garden until its relocation to Grant Park in 2006. Statues honoring the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller can also be found in Lincoln Park. The large Goethe statue
854-412: A zoo are located in the oldest part of the park between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the eponymous neighborhood . Further to the north, the park is characterized by parkland, beaches , recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors. To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. With 20 million visitors per year, Lincoln Park
915-540: Is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago , Illinois . Named after US President Abraham Lincoln , it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. Two museums and
976-677: Is a large memorial to Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln Park overlooking Cannon Drive . The sculpture was created in 1891 by Louis Rebisso . The statue of Hans Christian Andersen by Johannes Gelert (1896) on Stockton Drive near Webster Avenue provides a tribute to the Danish storyteller. The Eugene Field Memorial (1922) designed by Edward McCartan remembers the Chicago Daily News columnist and poet who wrote " Little Boy Blue " and " Winken, Blinken, and Nod ". William Ordway Partridge 's statue of William Shakespeare (1894) provides
1037-739: Is a ten-acre pond that has become an important wildlife area. Historically the site was a dune, then a dumping ground, and an ornamental pond; it was converted in 1999–2000 into a natural area with a littoral zone that greatly improved the water quality by re-establishing native Midwestern ecology. The upland restoration of prairie, savanna, and woodland plants has included only top quality native species such as little bluestem, sky-blue aster, nodding wild onion, side-oats grama, butterfly weed, purple prairie clover, rough blazing star, wild quinine, prairie phlox, coneflowers, false dragonhead, northern prairie dropseed, showy goldenrod, rattlesnake master, shooting star, and wild bergamot. The North Pond Nature Sanctuary
1098-638: Is a working reproduction of a Midwestern farm containing horses and livestock such as pigs, cows, and sheep. At the Farm-in-the-Zoo, children can feed and interact with the animals and view live demonstrations of farm work such as the milking of cows. In 2010, the Zoo transformed the South Pond, to create a wildlife marsh habitat, with a Nature Boardwalk . The Lincoln Park Conservatory offers year-round displays of plants from many different climates around
1159-726: Is about his experience walking through the park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests . In 2004 the Lincoln Park Lagooners were inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame . Chicago History Museum Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago 's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since
1220-504: Is an 18-mile multi-use path in Chicago along the coast of Lake Michigan . It is popular with cyclists and joggers. It is designed to promote bicycle commuting . From north to south, it runs through Lincoln Park, Grant Park , Burnham Park and Jackson Park . The North Pond Nature Sanctuary ( 41°55′42″N 87°38′15″W / 41.92833°N 87.63750°W / 41.92833; -87.63750 ( North Pond ) ), located between Fullerton, Diversey, Stockton and Cannon,
1281-555: Is known for its statuary, being referred to as "Chicago's outdoor Statuary Hall " by WBEZ . Abraham Lincoln: The Man is a famous standing Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park by Augustus Saint-Gaudens , the same sculptor who created Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State in Grant Park. Replicas of Lincoln Park's Standing Lincoln can be found at Lincoln's tomb, Springfield and in Parliament Square , London. The statue
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#17327828436411342-576: Is located at Dearborn Street and North Avenue. It was fully restored in 1989 by the Lincoln Park Conservancy's Adopt-A-Monument Program, and 8,200 square feet of formal gardens were added in front of the monument. The only other person memorialized in statue in both Grant and Lincoln parks is Alexander Hamilton ; the statue of Hamilton was sculpted by John Angel . Just as there is an Abraham Lincoln statue in Grant Park , there
1403-519: Is located near Diversey Parkway and Stockton Drive. The smaller Schiller statue is located near the western entrance to the zoo. Cyrus Edwin Dallin 's 1890 A Signal of Peace is exhibited at the park. At Addison Street stands a 40-foot (12-meter) totem pole depicting Kwanusila the Thunderbird . A statue of John Peter Altgeld (1915), the nineteenth-century Illinois Governor who pardoned
1464-534: Is notable as the site where Mayor Richard M. Daley and the US Fish and Wildlife Service signed an Urban Conservation Treaty for Migratory Birds in April 2004, making the city eligible for federal funds to restore habitat for the lakefront migratory pathway for birds. Restoration with native plants has drawn a great diversity of wildlife to this urban pond including many species of birds , turtles , frogs , and even
1525-505: Is open to the public, including students working on school projects. The costume collection numbers more than 50,000 pieces and dates from the 18th century to the present. It contains numerous couture pieces, items created by well-known Chicago manufacturers and designers, and garments worn by notable residents. The museum offers a variety of programs, publications, and online resources related to Chicago and American history. This includes print and online editions of its collaborative effort
1586-653: Is the second-most-visited city park in the United States , behind Manhattan's Central Park . The park's recreational facilities include baseball/softball fields, basketball courts, beach volleyball courts, cricket pitches, football/soccer fields, a golf course, lacrosse fields, rugby pitches, tennis courts, volleyball courts, field houses, a target archery field, a skate park, and a driving range. The park also features several harbors with boating facilities, as well as public beaches for swimming, and nature reserves. There are landscaped gardens, public art, bird refuges,
1647-663: Is used for seasonal flower and plant exhibits. A docent program run by the Chicago Park District and Lincoln Park Conservancy provides free tours of the Conservatory and its outdoor gardens from 1–4 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays and from 9 to Noon on Saturdays. Located on Fullerton Parkway between Stockton and Cannon Drives, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool is an historic example of Prairie School landscape architecture. The Lily Pool
1708-660: The Encyclopedia of Chicago . The museum's Chicago Fire mobile app has content equivalent to a 400-page book with more than 350 illustrations, drawn from the museum's collection. The app also offers of 10 distinct Chicago areas and 54 fire-related landmarks. The app uses GPS guidance that helps the user view photos of nearby sites from the era of the Great Chicago Fire. The museum also publishes Chicago History magazine. Written by historians and heavily illustrated, this publication focuses on Chicago's complex past and
1769-663: The American Civil War , at the McLean House in Appomattox , Virginia. In 2010, the museum was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame . After 36 years in the Henry Ives Cobb structure on North Dearborn Street, the museum and library moved to the current complex in Lincoln Park. The oldest part of the museum, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White , was built in 1932 by
1830-472: The American Civil War . These include Lincoln's deathbed, several other pieces of furniture from the room where he died in the Petersen House , and clothing that he and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln allegedly wore the evening of his assassination. The collection also contains the table on which General Robert E. Lee signed his 1865 surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant , an official act that ended
1891-890: The Chicago Academy of Sciences opened its most recent facility, the Nature Museum, in 1999. The Academy's previous museum building, the Matthew Laflin Memorial Building, was the Park District's first museum in the parks. The museum's exhibits include displays about the ecological history of the Illinois region, a live butterfly house, and a green home demonstration. The butterfly house features over 200 species of exotic butterflies. The museum also offers educational programs for adults and children. Located at Clark Street and North Avenue,
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1952-530: The Uptown neighborhood (4400 N; 41°57′48″N 87°38′00″W / 41.96333°N 87.63333°W / 41.96333; -87.63333 ( Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary ) ), there is the 15-acre (6.1 ha) Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary (including "The Magic Hedge"). During the Cold War , Montrose point, which juts out into Lake Michigan, was used by the United States Army as
2013-457: The WPA , with the aim of creating expanded public exhibition space. The 1932 Federal -style structure has been expanded twice. The first addition, clad in limestone, opened in 1972 and was designed by Alfred Shaw and Associates. The second addition, designed by Holabird and Root , was done in 1988 and included refacing the earlier expansion in red brick to give a unified look to all three portions of
2074-400: The 1920s, under the leadership of the Chicago Academy of Sciences , its spring is supplied with city water to mimic a natural lake marsh environment, with attendant forest and meadow environments. Most of its 7-acre (2.8 ha) area is entirely fenced around to preserve the habitat from human encroachment. Instead, a nature trail and a viewing platform are at its surrounding perimeter. During
2135-726: The 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times. Long known as the CHS, the society adopted the name, Chicago History Museum , in September 2006 for its public presence. Much of the Chicago Historical Society's first collection was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, but
2196-659: The 1940s, its Park District caretakers lost funding and the site was padlocked. In 1968, the entire site was almost bulldozed for golf course development but its Lake View neighbors, including Bill Jarvis, led a successful campaign to save and restore it. Today it hosts more than 150 species of birds, including six species of herons, like the black crowned night heron ; wood ducks ; woodcock ; hawks ; yellow-billed cuckoos ; hummingbirds ; thrushes ; vireos; 34 species of warblers ; and 18 native species of sparrows . In addition, small mammals such as rabbit, opossum , raccoon , and occasionally fox and coyote make their home there. In
2257-661: The Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club. Belmont Harbor provides 730 moorings, a fuel dock and a ship store. The Chicago Yacht Club has a Belmont station and the Belmont Yacht Club is located here. Diversey Harbor has 714 moorings and the Diversey Yacht Club provides a fueling dock. There is also a public launch at Diversey and the park also has rowing, sculling, and crewing channels. The Chicago Lakefront Trail (abbreviated as LFT)
2318-702: The Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society) is dedicated to Chicago's human history. Perhaps among its most well-known possessions are Abraham Lincoln 's deathbed and several furniture pieces from the room where he died in the Petersen House in Washington, D.C. , as well as clothing he and wife Mary Todd Lincoln wore the evening of his assassination. The museum also houses Chicago's most important collection of materials related to local history from
2379-871: The Great Chicago Fire to the Young Lords in Lincoln Park. In addition to the exhibits, the museum continues to house an extensive research library which includes books and other published materials, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and photos. Lincoln Park runs from north to south through five Chicago community areas: Edgewater , Uptown , Lake View , Lincoln Park , and Near North . Along its seven-mile (11 km) stretch, Lincoln Park has many specialized spaces for recreational activities. The Park contains playgrounds ; basketball , beach volleyball , tennis , volleyball courts, boating facilities; beaches ; swimming ; field and beach houses; running and bike paths; playing fields and pitches; archery, baseball , cricket, football , lacrosse , rugby , soccer , softball ;
2440-522: The Lincoln Park Conservancy and the Chicago Park District, which earned the site its historic designations, and renamed the site after Alfred Caldwell. The Lily Pool is open seasonally from mid-April to mid-November from 7:30 a.m. to the earlier of dusk or 7:30 p.m. every day. A docent program run by the Chicago Park District and Lincoln Park Conservancy offers free tours from 1–4 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and from 9 – Noon on Saturdays during operating season. First established in 1857,
2501-725: The National Register of Historic Places as the Old Chicago Historical Society Building . Charles F. Gunther , a prominent Chicago collector, donated some items to the historical society. In 1920, the society purchased the remainder of the large historical collection from his estate, with the intention of changing its focus from merely a research institution to a public museum. Many of the items in Gunther's collection, in addition to being related to Chicago, were related to Abraham Lincoln and
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2562-467: The building. Both expansions occurred on the west side of the 1932 structure, leaving intact its original porticoed entrance facing Lincoln Park. The main entrance and reception hall, however, was moved to the new western addition facing Clark street. The modernist 1988 extension, in addition to expanded exhibition galleries, also contains the museum's store and public cafe. The museum explores both Chicago and American history. Exhibitions draw primarily on
2623-456: The burial grounds were a health risk, which "might serve extremely well for plantations of grove and forest trees" that would be "useful and ornamental to the city." The idea was dropped during the Civil War, but revived by Dr. Rauch after the war ended. By 1864, the city council had decided to add all the 120-acre (0.49 km ) cemetery lands north of North Avenue to the park by relocating
2684-462: The center. The fountain was installed in 1887 as a gift from Eli Bates , a wealthy Chicago business man. It was designed by famous artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), and his assistant Frederick William MacMonnies (1863–1937), who later would design the famous central fountain, the Grand Barge of State, in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition . Lincoln Park Lincoln Park
2745-508: The city's fashion history. On October 14, 2013, the Chicago History Museum announced a project asking the public to furnish ideas for a future exhibition and reducing the most-often-submitted ideas to one assignment through a series of public votes. According to the American Alliance of Museums, this is the first crowdsourcing project allowing the public to give an exhibition assignment to an American museum. On January 19, 2006,
2806-520: The first passenger car to operate on the Chicago 'L' system in 1893 was transported to its new display location at the Chicago History Museum. Passengers could ride the 1893 'L' from the Loop to Hyde Park station for 5 cents to attend the World's Columbian Exposition upon the line's opening. The vehicle, known as L Car #1, was cosmetically restored to its 1893 appearance before being transported to
2867-463: The graves. The cemetery sections south of North Avenue were also relocated but this land was left for residential development. An estimated 35,000 people total were buried in the cemetery sections of the park, and the plan required the removal of these graves to other newly opened cemeteries further from the city and lake. To this day, the Couch mausoleum can still be seen as the most visible reminder of
2928-469: The history as a cemetery, standing amidst trees, behind the Chicago History Museum . Ira Couch , who is interred in the tomb, was one of Chicago's earliest innkeepers, opening the Tremont House in 1835. Couch is believed to not be the only person interred in the old burial ground in Lincoln Park. A plaque placed nearby states that "the remains of six Couch family members and one family friend are in
2989-460: The men convicted in the Haymarket affair bombing, can be seen just south of Diversey. This statue was created by Gutzon Borglum and unveiled on September 6 (Labor Day), 1915. The 1980 film My Bodyguard contains several scenes filmed in Lincoln Park. Phil Ochs' song "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed", featured on his 1969 Rehearsals for Retirement album,
3050-534: The museum rose from the ashes like the city. Among its many documents which were lost in the fire was Abraham Lincoln 's final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation . (This draft had been donated by Lincoln to nurse Mary Livermore for her to auction to raise funds to build Chicago's Civil War Soldiers' Home ) After the fire, the Society began collecting new materials, which were stored in
3111-678: The museum where it was lifted into an opening created through a wall on the museum's second floor. The car's interior features include mahogany and rattan seats and etched glass windows. The L car joins the Pioneer , the first locomotive to operate in Chicago; a redesigned exhibition space to showcase the car and locomotive opened on September 30, 2006, as part of a larger remodeling project. The museum houses Chicago's most important collection of materials related to local history. The extensive research library includes books and other published materials, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and photos. It
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#17327828436413172-442: The museum's own collection, which numbers approximately 22 million holdings. Chicago: Crossroads of America is a 16,000-square-foot space that explores the city's development and its relationship to and influence on American history. Nearly 600 objects document the people and events of the past 200 years. Facing Freedom focuses on eight American conflicts over freedom from the 1850s to the 1970s. The Abraham Lincoln alcoves highlight
3233-523: The only cemeteries in the Chicago area until 1859. In 1852, David Kennison, who is said to have been born in 1736, died and was buried in City Cemetery. Another notable burial in the cemetery was Chicago Mayor James Curtiss , whose body was lost when the cemetery was added to the park. Throughout the late 1850s, there was discussion of closing the cemetery or abandoning it because of health concerns. In fall 1858, Dr. John H. Rauch MD suggested that
3294-474: The park was renamed to honor the recently assassinated President Abraham Lincoln . Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, part of the oldest section of today's Lincoln Park near North Avenue began its existence as the City Cemetery in 1843. This was subdivided into a Potter's Field , Catholic cemetery, Jewish cemetery, and the general City Cemetery. These cemeteries were
3355-540: The sixteenth president's election, his leadership during the Civil War, and his assassination. The adjoining Portrait Gallery features an installation on Chicago during the time of Lincoln. The Sensing Chicago exhibition invites children to use their senses to discover the past. The lobby displays various museum treasures. The newly restored dioramas are housed in the Tawani Foundation Diorama Hall. The Chicago dioramas feature Chicago's rise from
3416-557: The tomb." Partially due to the destruction of the Chicago Fire of wooden burial markers, it was difficult to identify many of the remains. As recently as 1998, construction in the park revealed more bodies left over in the nineteenth century burial ground. Another large and notable group of graves relocated from the site of today's Lincoln Park were those of approximately 4,000 Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Douglas . Many prisoners perished between 1862 and 1865 as
3477-464: The world. Today's conservatory was built in stages from 1890 to 1895. It consists of a vestibule, four display halls and fifteen propagating and growing houses. The vestibule and Palm House were built and opened to the public in 1892 and contain giant palms and rubber trees, including a 15 m (50 ft) fiddle-leaf rubber tree planted in 1891. In the Palm House, one can also find Garden Figure,
3538-564: Was a central tenet of the 1909 Burnham Plan for the development of Chicago. From 1912 until 1991, the park contained the Lincoln Park Gun Club . Another aspect of park history were the Young Lords Lincoln Park neighborhood sit ins and take-overs of institutions under the leadership of Jose Cha Cha Jimenez , protesting the displacement of Latinos by Mayor Richard J. Daley 's urban renewal policies. It
3599-691: Was also the scene of violent events that took place during the 1968 Democratic National Convention . These events transpired around the convention center, Grant Park, Old Town , and the park. I pointed out that it was in the best interests of the City to have us in Lincoln Park ten miles (16 km) away from the Convention hall. I said we had no intention of marching on the Convention hall, that I didn't particularly think that politics in America could be changed by marches and rallies, that what we were presenting
3660-602: Was an alternative life style, and we hoped that people of Chicago would come up, and mingle in Lincoln Park and see what we were about. Lincoln Park is well known for the Lincoln Park Zoo, a free zoo that is open year-round. Lincoln Park Zoo is home to a wide variety of animals. It includes big cats , penguins , gorillas , reptiles , monkeys , and other species totaling to nearly 1,250 animals. Two sections of Lincoln Park Zoo have been set aside for children. The partially indoor Pritzker Family Children's Zoo includes habitats of various North American wildlife. The Farm-in-the-Zoo
3721-421: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historic Landmark on February 17, 2006. The Lily Pool had originally been built to cultivate tropical water lilies in 1889. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration hired landscape architect Alfred Caldwell to redesign the pool in the Prairie School style. From 1998 to 2002, the Lily Pool underwent an extensive restoration by
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