PARKS. Chicago has a splendid system of public parks, covering over 2200 acres, and cam meted by wide, level houleverds which have aided materially in making the greater Chicago an organic whole. There are about 40 parks, of which seven are of considerable extent. There are, in addition, numerous attractive playgrounds to meet the needs of great masses of children who were without CMINTIlient access to the parks. The principal parks are maintained by State funds, and are controlled by a Board of Commisshmers, for each division of the city, appointed by the Governor; the smaller areas are under municipal control. In the city there are about. 45 boule vards, aggregating in length a total of 70 miles. These include the well-known Lake Shore Drive, Sheridan Road, Diversey Avenue, and Ridge Avenue boulevards in the North Division: Hum boldt, Washington, and Jackson boulevards in the West Division; Michigan Avenue. Grand, Drexel. and Garfield boulevards in the Smith Division. The North Side park system centres in Lincoln Park (320 acres), one of the most beautiful in the city, with attractions in the way of a zocjogical collection, conservatories and gardens. and an electrically illuminated fountain. It has, also. statues of Lincoln and Grant (among the most notable of the city), of Linnaeus. and La Salle, and the Ottawa Indian monuments. If the South Side parks, the Lake Front (21(I acres), adjoining the business section on the east. is notevvorthy,being on ground Mostly reclaimed from the lake. It contains the Art In stitute and the proposed site for the Field Co lumbian Museum, now in Jackson Park. Jack
son Park (580 acres) has a world-wide repute thin, having been the spacious site of the World Columbian Exposition (q.v.), of a few features remain, the most important being Field Columbian Museum. It was the Fine Arts Building of the Exposition. has a library and scientific collections, and is endowed with $1,500, 000. The famous Midway Plaisan•e (80 acres) leads from Jackson Park past the buildings of the University of Chicago to Washington Park 1:171 acres). noteworthy for its trees and flowers. The West Side Division has a total park area of tI25 acres, including Douglas Park (179 acres), Garfield Park ( 185 acres). and Ilumboldt Park (200 acres). all of which contain lakes and special features. In the last-named park is located a tine moninnent to Humboldt. The dis tribution of smaller parks and squares through out this city adds to the effectiveness of the system.
Other notable monuments of the city are the mausoleum and statue of Stephen A. Douglas in Douglas Monument Square: an equestrian statue of General Logan in Lake Front Park; the Po. lire Monument, in Union Square, •ommemorat ing the victims of the- Anarchist riot of and the Confederate Monument in Oakwood; Cemetery. It the end of Michigan Avenue, a tablet mark; the site of Fort Dearborn. There are several cemeteries within the city limits. Of these. Graceland and Rosehill, in the North sion. are WI III hy of particular mention for beallty.