Jackson Park
Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition.Photo: Jcrocker, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Science and Industry Chicago and Robie House.
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
Museum
The Museum of Science and Industry is a private, non-profit science museum located in Jackson Park, the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois. It is adjacent to Lake Michigan and the University of Chicago campus.
Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house museum on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Pioneer Zephyr
Locomotive
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Pioneer Zephyr is a diesel-powered trainset built by the Budd Company in 1934 for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, commonly known as the Burlington Route.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jackson Park Highlands District and Woodlawn.
Jackson Park Highlands District
Neighborhood
The Jackson Park Highlands District is a historic district in the South Shore community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The district was built in 1905 by various architects. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 25, 1989.
Woodlawn
Suburb
Woodlawn is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is near the shore of Lake Michigan 8.5 miles south of the Loop. The community area is bounded by the lake to the east, 60th Street to the north, King Drive to the west and 67th Street to the south, and a small area that lies south of 67th Street between Cottage Grove Avenue and South Chicago Avenue.
Hyde Park
Photo: Urbanrules, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most famous neighborhoods, most certainly so on the South Side, located along the south lakefront. Having played host to the White City, the University of Chicago, President Obama, the setting for Richard Wright's Native Son, and…
Jackson Park
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Norwegian Bokmål—“Jackson Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jackson Park”
- Chinese: “傑克森公園”
- Chinese: “傑克遜公園 (芝加哥)”
- Chinese: “傑克遜公園”
- Chinese: “杰克逊公园 (芝加哥)”
- Chinese: “杰克逊公园”
- Dutch: “Jackson Park”
- French: “Jackson Park”
- Hebrew: “פארק ג’קסון”
- Japanese: “ジャクソン・パーク”
- Japanese: “ジャクソン公園”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jackson Park”
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Localities in the Area
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