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Xitang (Chinese: 西塘; pinyin: Xītáng; lit. 'West Pond'), formerly known as Xietang (Chinese: 斜塘; lit. 'Oblique Pond'), Pingtang (Chinese: 平塘; lit. 'Flat Pond') and Xutang (Chinese: 胥塘; lit. 'Xu Pond'), is a historic town in Jiashan County, Zhejiang, China. It borders Luxu Town in the north, Yaozhuang Town in the east, Ganyao ...
The Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District, which encompasses most of the Boulevard System, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [14] The approved listing, stretches approximately 26 miles, including 8 parks, 19 boulevards, and 6 squares, as well as adjacent properties that preserve structures built from the 19th century to the 1940s.
Marquette Park: Chicago Lawn: 315 acres (127 ha) The largest park in southwest Chicago; has a golf course and many other attractions Millennium Park: Chicago Loop: 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) Chicago's newest marquee park, opened in 2004, just north of the Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
The Chicago Park District manages 220 facilities in 570 parks covering more than 7,600 acres (3,100 ha) of land throughout the city. [7] This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors over 24 miles (39 km) of lakefront, rendering the Chicago Park District the nation's largest municipal harbor system, along with 31 beaches, 17 historic lagoons, 86 pools, 90 playgrounds, 90 ...
Garfield Park is a 184-acre (0.74 km 2) urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.It was designed as a pleasure ground by William LeBaron Jenney in the 1870s and is the oldest of the three original parks developed by the West Side parks commission on the Chicago park and boulevard plan (Humboldt Park, Garfield, and Douglass Park).
Public data and entire webpages went blank Friday as federal agencies scrambled to comply with a directive tied to President Donald Trump's order rolling back protections for transgender people.
Harold Washington Park is a small (10 acre) [1] park in the Chicago Park District located in the Hyde Park community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. In 1992, it was named for Harold Washington (1922–1987), the first African-American Chicago Mayor .
(The Center Square) – From July 2024 to February 2025, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights has received over $63 million in Illinois taxpayer funds, according to the Illinois ...