Meyering Park

Meyering Park is a park in Cook, Illinois which is located on South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive. Meyering Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Park Manor, as well as near Brookline.

Type: Park
Description: park in Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
Address: 7140 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Chicago, IL 60619

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lem’s Bar-B-Q and 69th station.

Lem’s Bar-B-Q

Restaurant

Photo: Southern Foodways Alliance, CC BY 2.0.

Lem's Bar-B-Q is a barbecue restaurant in the Chatham community of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The restaurant is known for its rib tips, which Eater has described as Chicago's "most famous rib tips." In 2025 it was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation.

69th station

Metro station

Photo: Graham Garfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.

69th is a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Red Line. The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway, within the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.

Oakwoods Cemetery

Cemetery

Oak Woods Cemetery is a large lawn cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Located at 1035 E. 67th Street, it is in the Greater Grand Crossing area of Chicago's South Side.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greater Grand Crossing and South Park Manor Historic District.

Greater Grand Crossing

Suburb

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Greater Grand Crossing is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the city's South Side.

South Park Manor Historic District

Neighborhood

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The South Park Manor Historic District is a residential historic district in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district includes 263 Chicago bungalows built between 1915 and 1927.

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.