What is your favorite neighborhood Chicago park?

[marothisu]

For real parks I like Horner Park, Winnemac Park, McKinley Park, Jackson Park, etc. Also near me in the Gold Coast is Washington Square Park. Not a big park but I always think it's one of the more under appreciated green spaces downtown especially if you want some quiet outside. The scenery around it is cool too.

[Lookout Kid]

My favorite will always be Buena Circle Park, but for sentimental reasons more than anything else.

[quigboto]

I love Humboldt Park, but I am kind of biased since I live right next to it.

Lincoln Park is also high on my list.

I can't wait until the Bloomingdale Trail is open. It's going to be awesome.

[Bucktownbabe]

Originally Posted by quigboto

I can't wait until the Bloomingdale Trail is open. It's going to be awesome.

Definitely looking forward to that one!

[eating while walking]

Originally Posted by oliminator123

I recently moved into Lakeshore East during the Winter months and am looking forward to what the Lakeshore East Park is like during the warmer months of the year.

I grew up in Bridgeport (went back to my parents house and actually feasted on Freddie's Saturday) so I know what you're talking about. Spent a lot of my childhood by Donovan and McGuane.

Lakeshore East has a park? I did not know that. Are you talking about the green strip by the river?

[glass_of_merlot]

I like Chase park because they have a great playground, swimming pool and a fitness center. They also have baseball fields and soccer field.

[rubbersoul89]

I think Humboldt easily takes this prize.

[baileyvpotter]

Humboldt Park - beautiful and have some wonderful memories of it. Lincoln Park, the zoo, the arboretum
and those spine-chilling rides on the lagoon (below). Japanese Garden (Jackson Park) designed by Olmstead.



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[Drover]

I like Horner Park because it's a huge vast expanse of open green space that is never crowded because nobody who doesn't live nearby has ever heard of it.

[creeksitter]

I'm glad to see Sherman Park get a little love. I spent a couple weeks there in 1971 as a camp counselor. It was a sort of cultural exchange program for high school kids. You could tell the area east of the park was a little dicey. I stayed immediately west of the park in a detached home on Loomis. A good solid working class neighborhood but one weekend we visited relatives in the sububs, guess I was witnessing a social trend.

I remember being shocked to see trees - I expected an inner city neighborhood to be a row of treeless tenements.

So would it be a dangerous place to even drive by in the daylight. Loved that lagoon.