The Chicago Park District voted Wednesday to start the process of renaming Douglas Park, 1401 S. Sacramento Dr., to honor former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Douglas Park was named after slave owner Stephen Douglas in 1869. He was a U.S. senator from Illinois who lost the presidential election to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. He died in 1861.

The Chicago Park District Board voted Wednesday to officially remove the name of Stephen Douglas from the park. Signs come down at former Douglas Park in North Lawndale - Chicago Sun-Times ...

A Chicago park will be stripped of the name of slave owner Stephen Douglas and may be renamed for abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a city’s parks commission decided Wednesday.

The Chicago Park District voted Wednesday to rename the park in the largely black neighborhood, which has held Stephen Douglas’ name since 1869. Proponents have pushed the name change for years.

After three years of stalling, throat clearing and excuse-making, three years of inaction and silence, it’s now time for the Chicago Park District to officially rename Douglas Park for noted ...

After completing the southern portion of our Emerald Necklace tour, we've arrived at the first of the three grand parks of Chicago's West side, Douglas Park, which, along with its West Side ...

CHICAGO — The Chicago Park District Board voted unanimously to change the name of Douglas Park on the West Side to Douglass Park, after the African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass ...

Last month, the Chicago Park District voted to rename for Frederick Douglass its own Douglas Park, which had carried the “Little Giant’s” name since 1869.

Douglas Park is big — 170 acres. Signs with the park’s name are at every entrance. “I was thinking we were gonna do one sign, and it will fall apart.

A Springfield Park Board member is proposing a name change for the city's Douglas Park, named for the legendary U.S. senator from Illinois, Stephen Douglas, whom research has shown profited from ...