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    Bob L.

    Would like to see this great park and area have more security and a greater cleanup effort put in to beautify the park. Being there is a plauground, day camp in summer and lots of family and a cafe here for sure more security here is needed. Please clean up after yourselfs here and keep the Chgo parks clean and safe for everyone. Will be happy to change my rating to a 5 when I see the changes.

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    Lori S.

    I like that instead of rebuilding on this location they have turned two houses and two guest quarters into their park district houses. I came here for a theatre show, which is in the back. The theatre is very limited seating, the show was great. We were a week early for the cafe, but what a cool location to buy food and over look the lake. Oh yes the lake is right in back of all the buildings. I wish I live up this way, I would come back often if I did.

    Thomas G.

    Beautiful little park; peaceful also with rocks to sit on and watch the sunrise or fall. Lucky me, i live less than a mile away from this park. Great area to read a book also. If you see Sacred Hearts School; this park is located right across the street from it. There is also a cultural center as well; a playground for kids, and a place to grab coffee and breakfast at the waterfront cafe, which sits in the center of the cultural center and playground. Enjoy!

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    Watch it at night gang activity around the lake and dark tree areas. Can get rough on plarground on schools days. Just watch and be careful.

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    Harrison Park

    Harrison Park

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    Pilsen

    Came to Harrison Park in my newly acquired two toned Caleb Williams Bears jersey to eat and review…read morethe rotisserie chicken from Cermak Fresh Market. It was my 4th food review of the day, and I was exhausted. What has my life become? Traveling the country on weekends to film myself eating food? If you would have told me in January that this is where I would be... well honestly I would have believed you. I've been on the bike to work every morning repeating "travel, meet cool people, be purpose driven" over and over again everyday for the past year. I asked for this. I thought this review was going one way, but it just hit a sharp drift around a corner. That's why I love this type of stream of consciousness writing. You never know what will pop in your brain. Gotta just let it flow. I am so grateful. I'm traveling, meeting cool people, and have a significant amount of purpose in my life. It's crazy to realize your dreams are coming true. But anyways, I was exhausted eating this chicken that ended up landing at a 7.6/10, but it is an exhaustion of my choosing. For that, I am grateful. IG @johnny.novo Tiktok @jnov__ Substack @johnnynovo

    One of my favorite parks to go to in Chicago. It is under renovation, but they have made it safe to…read morewalk around. There are plenty of FREE parking around for such a large public park but still try to be careful walking around. I would bring my nieces and nephew here to play such as a large playground outdoor and large gymnastic room. The washroom and locker rooms are kept clean and always someone onsite, in case of any emergency.

    Coliseum Park - The coliseum, and what I called promenades, behind a green twirly seat

    Coliseum Park

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    Near Southside

    Coliseum Park is good city park with fun structures, plus a separate dog run…read more We were gathering with several families for an early dinner(Feb. 2026), and this park was a fun place to meet ahead of time. Coliseum Park is a 0.75-acre fenced greenspace at S. Wabash and E. 14th Place, open daily 6am-9pm. There's a cool-looking coliseum-shaped open-roofed structure at the northeast corner entrance, about 15-feet-tall, a circular center with two promenading arms (if promenading is what i mean to say). By the way, some city parks set up a two-gate entrance that gives kids an extra safety barrier from the street; this park only has a single-gated surrounding fence. Our group loved the six-sided climbing-structure, maybe 10-feet tall, that encloses a sort of rubbery swinging ramp and a web of ropes. Kids can climb to the top of a medium-length metal slide. There's also a smaller plastic slide on a hill for the younger kids We ran up and down five small built-hills, i dont know that else to call them, sort of padded bumps that are more fun than they sound like in a flat city :-). Some of them have stubby posts or rocks for sitting or climbing. One has a swiveling wavy-chair to plThere's several good-size low rocks around the park, too. I think i've finished making up awkward names for these things ;-). There's a medium-small self-powered merry-go-round which we spent a lot of time spinning on. And there's a saucer swing for one or two kids at a time, which was popular, too. The play area around all this equipment is that rough padding that helps soften any falls, but gives a good rash if a hand, elbow, or knee slides along it. Yes, a few tears were shed, but I suppose it reduces slipping. I didnt explore the dog-friendly fenced-area along the west side of this park, next to the elevated L-tracks. It's the length of the park, maybe 10-feet wide, mostly paved, with several trees. The entrance is from E. 14th Place. Signs remind you that dogs aren't allowed in the rest of the park with the kids. One of the adults tried the climbing structure, but it was kind of small for them. The merry-go-round and several of the hills are big enough for an adult or two to get involved :-) For those of us who were enjoying watching the playing more than engaging in the playing, there's backless benches scattered about the park, and there are benches along the edges of the park that have backs. (Though i admit i took a wild turn on the merry-go-round :-). Also, from an adult perspective, the corners on some of the play structures in more than one city park look like pimento-stuffed cocktail olives. Or is that just me?

    Kind of a smaller park Spongy ground good for toddlers…read moreThere's a big slide that's fun And a round shell swing The dog park is tiny though Usually younger babies compared to other parks Right behind a Kindercare so sometimes those kids are playing here It's also under the El so sometimes has loud train passing over

    Sun Yat-sen Park - Empty fountain and bust

    Sun Yat-sen Park

    (1 review)

    Chinatown

    For a long time this was the only park in Chicago's Chinatown until the fantastic Ping Tom Memorial…read morePark was built in the early 2000s. It is really unfortunate that the community had to go so long with this park as its only source of public "green" space. It is sandwiched between a couple of houses in a residential area along a long, narrow strip of land along 24th Pl. The park is basically broken into three equal areas: a children's playground, a small pavilion with some benches and a "fountain" with a few built-in chess/checker board tables. I put fountain in quotations because quite honestly I'm not sure if it is a fountain or not. There is a recessed square that looks like it could hold some water, but when I first visited this park in early fall it only contained a few piles of leaves. In the middle of the fountain is a stone column featuring a bust of Sun Yat-sen (from what I could decipher from the worn engraving on the column, he was an important political figure in China). As the pavilion and benches aren't all that interesting, the park's best feature is the children's playground. The park has some nice foliage, but it is negated by the noise and ugly aesthetic of the Stevenson Expressway, which is the park's very prominent southern boundary. As a standalone park, Sun Yat-sen is very disappointing, but if you look at it in conjunction with Ping Tom Park, it fares a little better. Ping Tom is located at the complete north-side of Chinatown, while this one is on the very south-side, so it gives those people living in the area an alternative to walking ~9 blocks north.

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