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Children on playground climbing structure
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Group of girls outside on a playground climbing structure, with a woman soothing a young boy near them.
Date:
c. 1930
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
South Commons townhouses
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View of a courtyard and adjacent play area in the South Commons residential development. Some of the townhouses are visible in the background.
Date:
1970
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Street view of Enchanted Island, a children's playground at the Century of Progress International Exposition.
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Children outdoors in playground
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Children playing outdoors on slides and playground equipment.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
Sign for Southwest Central Community Council playground
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Sign for Southwest Central Community Council Playground Number 1. The playground area is fenced with chain link fencing, and a bench and sandbox are visible in the background.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
Douglas Park and Roosevelt Road
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View in winter from Douglas Park, looking towards apartment buildings along West Roosevelt Road. The intersection of Roosevelt Road and South Francisco Avenue is near the center of the photograph. Playground equipment is visible in the park, behind the trees.
Date:
circa 1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
West Lawn Park play area and Fieldhouse
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View of a playground area with swings and a sandbox at the north end of West Lawn Park. The rear of the West Lawn Park Fieldhouse is visible behind this.
Date:
1977
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Cabrini-Green public housing complex
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View of a playground adjacent to the Cabrini-Green public housing complex, looking northeast from West Oak Street, just east of North Larrabee Street. High-rise apartment buildings in the Cabrini-Green complex (now demolished) are visible behind the playground.
Date:
1980; 1958 (Cabrini Extension)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Urban Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Urban Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Master Plan, scale 1 in. = 400 ft
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Calumet Grove and Kickapoo Grove; Plan Number FPD-5-A & 6 9100-45; sheet 45
Date:
December 30, 1938
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Master Plan Eggers Wood Area, Scale 1 in. = 100 ft
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Eggers Woods Area; Plan Number FPD-5-A 9100-43; sheet 43
Date:
November 25, 1941
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Urban Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Urban Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Children on a slide in playground
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Children playing on a slide in a fenced playground, with two women watching them.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
Bromann Playground, Andersonville
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View of Bromann Playground, a Chicago Park District facility on West Balmoral Avenue at North Broadway. A mural depicting giraffes decorates the wall of a building facing the north edge of the playground. A glimpse of North Broadway is visible at the far right of the image.
Date:
1981
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Dearborn Park residential development
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View looking northeast from a landscaped open area with a play structure and benches, part of the low-rise townhouse development immediately behind it. These townhomes and the high-rise apartment buildings behind them are part of the Dearborn Park development. The two high-rises are Dearborn Park High Rise I (899 South Plymouth Court) and Dearborn Park High Rise II (901 South Plymouth Court).
Date:
1980; 1979 (Dearborn Park townhomes); 1979-1980 (Dearborn Park High Rises I and II)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Drawings of statues at the entrance to Enchanted Island
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access
Children in playground next to apartment building
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Group of three children sitting on a bench in a play area adjacent to an unidentified apartment building.
Date:
circa 1960s
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Cabrini-Green public housing complex, West Division Street
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View of the William Green Homes, high-rise apartment buildings in the Cabrini-Green public housing development, looking northeast along the north side of West Division Street, just east of the intersection with North Crosby Street.
Date:
1976; 1962 (William Green Homes)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Urban Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Urban Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Playground
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Clybourn Park playground and CTA elevated tracks
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View looking northeast from Clybourn Park (Clybourn Playlot Park) at the adjacent CTA elevated tracks (now part of the Brown and Purple Lines). The playground, located just east of North Sheffield Avenue at 1755 North Clybourn Avenue, was paved with asphalt at the time. A child on a slide is visible at the lower left. Above him, the top of an apartment building at the northwest corner of West Willow and North Bissell Streets is visible above the tracks.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Condominium housing, North Larrabee Street
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View of a play area with a wooden climbing structure adjacent to newly constructed condominium housing at 1800 North Larrabee Street, looking northeast from the northeast corner of the intersection of North Larrabee Street and West Menomonee Street.
Date:
1979 (1800 North Larrabee)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Water Tower Place and John Hancock Center from Pearson Park
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View to the northwest from North Lake Shore Drive near the corner of East Pearson Street, with Pearson Park (now Lake Shore Park) in the foreground. Water Tower Place and the John Hancock Center are prominently visible.
Date:
1976; 1969 (John Hancock Center); 1976 (Water Tower Place)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Children playing in sandbox, Southwest Community Council Playground #1
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Children playing in the sandbox at Southwest Community Council Playground #1.
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
Boys playing baseball at Komensky School
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Boys playing baseball in the playground at Komensky School
Date:
c. 1955
Collection:
Bethlehem Howell Neighborhood Center collection
Access:
Public access
Cabrini-Green public housing complex
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View of Cabrini-Green public housing complex, showing a group of high-rise apartment buildings adjacent to an open area with playground equipment and basketball courts.
Date:
1976; 1958 (Cabrini Extension)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Playground behind apartment buildings, Logan Square
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Open grassy area with a slide and play structure at rear of apartment buildings, Logan Square.
Date:
1981
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Pamphlet of West Chicago Parks Commissioners on Recreation Centers, 1919
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Date:
April 2, 1905
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Playground Slides
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Date:
ca. 1904
Collection:
Forest Preserve District of Cook County records
Access:
Public access
Playground, Seneca Park
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View of a playground in Seneca Park located behind (east of) the Chicago Avenue Pumping Station. The top of the Lewis Towers is visible behind the pumping station.
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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