Addams Park

Addams Park is a public park in Chicago named after Jane Addams. It is located in Little Italy in the Near West Side Community Area. In June 2017 it was announced that Exelon planned to build a $20 million, 100,000 sq-ft multi-purpose indoor facility in the park.

Type: Park
Description: public park
Also known as: “Addams/Medill Park” and “Jane Addams Park”
Address: 1430 West 14th Street, Chicago, IL 60608

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chicago Technology Academy and Saint Adalbert Church.

Chicago Technology Academy

School

Chicago Tech Academy is a high school in the Chicago University Village in Pilsen. Chicago Tech opened in September 2009 as the city's first technology high school. Chicago Technology Academy is situated 700 feet east of Addams Park.

Saint Adalbert Church

Church

Photo: Joe Jeanette Archie, CC BY 2.0.

St. Adalbert Church is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. The church is located on 17th Street between Paulina Street and Ashland Avenue in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Saint Adalbert Church is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Addams Park.

Rudy Lozano Branch

Library

Photo: Mahir256, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rudy Lozano Branch is a library, which is situated 1,900 feet south of Addams Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pilsen and Little Italy.

Pilsen

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Only a few minutes from the center of Chicago by train, Pilsen is a working-class predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood. Marked by riches in art and historic architecture and occupied by a community that's fiercely proud of where they live, this neighborhood is at once distinctly Chicagoan and something entirely unique.

Little Italy

Quarter

Little Italy, sometimes combined with University Village into one neighborhood, is on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The current boundaries of Little Italy are Ashland Avenue on the west and Interstate 90/94 on the east, the Eisenhower Expressway on the north and Roosevelt to the south.

Illinois Medical District

Neighborhood

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The Illinois Medical District is a special-use zoning district two miles west of the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. The Illinois Medical District consists of 560 acres of medical research facilities, labs, a biotechnology business incubator, a raw development area, four major hospitals, two medical universities, and more than 40 health care related facilities.