Wicker Park
Wicker Park is a 4.03-acre public urban park in the Wicker Park neighborhood of the West Town community and West Side district, in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after Charles G. Wicker and Joel H. Wicker.Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Address: 1425 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
Places of Interest
Highlights include Damen station and Wicker Park Lutheran Church.
Damen station
Metro station
Photo: Nico Brussels, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Damen is a rapid transit station on the Chicago "L", currently serving the O'Hare branch of its Blue Line. Opened on May 6, 1895, as Robey, it is the oldest station on the Blue Line and one of the few surviving stations originally built for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad.
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral
Church
Photo: fusion-of-horizons, CC BY 2.0.
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the Midwest. It is one of only two churches designed by Louis Sullivan, one of the seminal architects of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wicker Park and West Town.
Wicker Park
Photo: Victorgrigas, Public domain.
Wicker Park is the vanguard of music, nightlife, and fashion in Chicago. This article also includes the sly, enjoyable Ukrainian Village, immediately south, and pieces of the greater West Town area.
West Town
Suburb
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
West Town is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the northwest of the Loop. Much of this area was historically part of Polish Downtown, along Western Avenue, which was then the city's western boundary.
Ukrainian Village
Neighborhood
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ukrainian Village is a Chicago neighborhood located on the near west side of Chicago. Its boundaries are Division Street to the north, Grand Avenue to the south, Western Avenue to the west, and Damen Avenue to the east.
Wicker Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.908° or 41° 54′ 29″ northLongitude
-87.67617° or 87° 40′ 34″ westElevation
594 feet (181 metres)Operator
Chicago Park DistrictOpen location code
86HJW85F+6GOpenStreetMap ID
way 5732180OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4916473Wikidata ID
Q7998336
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Russian—“Wicker Park” goes by many names.
- French: “Wicker Park”
- Russian: “Wicker Park”
- Russian: “Уикер-парк”
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Highlights include Wicker Park Fieldhouse and Bodybar Pilates.
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