Ald. Monique Scott (24th) and her brother, former Ald. Michael Scott say the park district has too few lifeguards, too little ...

However, imagine if they were to step outside the curtain and into Vancouver’s Playland Amusement Park ... Chicago exhibition ...

Arlington County is eyeing a $1.1 million real estate purchase to expand Douglas Park. Buying and deconstructing a home for sale at 4030 16th Street S. -- listed in the Public Spaces Master Plan ...

Riot Fest 2024 recently revealed it's lineup … and new location. Until now, Riot Fest had been mainly held at Douglass Park. Along with the lineup announcement, Riot fest issued a statement expressing ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Rock Island Park and Recreation Department invites the community to celebrate the completion of renovations in Douglas Park with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday ...

Eight St., is an example of the Prairie style of architecture that originated in Chicago. A Dublin Townhouse, believed to have been built in 1869, is located at 602 E. Ninth St.

Stephen Douglas is not too popular in Illinois these days. Last year, the city added an ‘s’ to Douglass Park on the West Side, renaming it after abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his wife ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A sprawling park on Chicago’s West Side will now bear the name of 19th century abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Anna Murray-Douglass and not that of a former Illinois senator and ...

CHICAGO (CBS/AP) --Douglas Park on the West Side is now officially Douglass Park. It might be a change of only one letter, but for a group of student activists, that's all the difference in the ...

The decision came two months after district officials stripped the park, established in 1869, of its original name, “Douglas Park” — an homage to former Illinois senator and slave owner ...

Douglass Park finally has its extra “s.” The Chicago Park District voted Wednesday to officially change the name of the West Side park to honor the renowned abolitionists Anna and Frederick ...

There has been a recent backlash against the park’s namesake, Stephen Douglas, perhaps best known for his debates with Abraham Lincoln in 1858 in the race for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois.