Chicago's largest park and the neighborhood around it. Once a cemetery, now home to a free zoo, conservatory, and green space that rivals Central Park.
Landmarks and stories from Lincoln Park that you'll hear about on the tour.
Come through the gate and listen to what happens to the sound. The traffic drops away. That was designed. The stone walls and the tree canopy were shaped to do precisely that.
The small stone building in the grass — columns across the front, iron door that does not open — is a tomb. It is still occupied. And it is the last one left out of about thirty-five thousand.
Glass and iron, arched like the hull of a boat turned upside down, sitting on a granite base. If the door is open you will feel this building before you are through it.
Stop for a second and listen. Somewhere up in the trees along this water there is a noise like somebody dragging a rusted gate open. Now look up into the branches for hunched gray shapes sitting very still.
The long brick building with the green tile roof and the eaves that stick way out past the walls is Café Brauer. Prairie School, nineteen oh-eight, and it is aimed straight at the water.
Look at the main gate of Lincoln Park Zoo and notice what isn't there. No ticket window. No turnstile. Nobody scanning anything. You walk in the way you'd walk into a park, and it has worked like that since eighteen sixty-eight.
The bronze man in front of you has not started talking yet. Look at what he's doing. He's just risen from the chair behind him. Head down, one hand on his lapel, the other hanging at his side.
Brick building, arched windows, opened in nineteen twenty-seven. For about twenty years this held the most famous resident of the city of Chicago, and he was a gorilla. His name was Bushman.
Lincoln Park is home to 8 notable attractions and landmarks. Explore the area with 1 self-guided audio tour from Bad Historian.
Yes. Bad Historian offers 1 self-guided audio walking tour through Lincoln Park. Download the app, choose a tour, head to the starting point, and press play.
Lincoln Park in Chicago features landmarks, historic sites, and hidden gems. Explore them all with audio narration in the Bad Historian app.
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