North Playground
North Playground is a playground in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. North Playground is situated nearby to the peak Players Hill, as well as near the nature reserve Bird & Butterfly Sanctuary.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Columbus Park and Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption.
Columbus Park
Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Columbus Park is a 135-acre park located on the far West Side of Chicago, Illinois, in the Austin neighborhood. It is considered the finest work by landscape architect Jens Jensen and was consequently named a National Historic Landmark in 2003.
Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption
Church
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption is situated 2,300 feet southeast of North Playground.
Oak Park Village Hall
Town hall
The Oak Park Village Hall at 123 Madison Street is the center of village government in Oak Park, Illinois. The village hall was built in 1975 as part of a series of public infrastructure improvements intended to prevent white flight from the village. Oak Park Village Hall is situated 2,800 feet west of North Playground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Austin and Oak Park.
Austin
Suburb
Photo: Steven Kevil, Public domain.
Austin is one of the 77 officially-designated community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Located on the city's West Side, it is the third-largest community area by population and the second-largest geographically.
Oak Park
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oak Park is a city of 52,000 people in the Chicagoland area. It's essentially an outdoor museum dedicated to architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Far West Side
Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chicago's Far West Side is best known for being impoverished and crime-ridden, but it has at least one major attraction as well as some fabulous parks, vibrant immigrant communities, and blues legends.
North Playground
- Type: Playground
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.87751° or 41° 52′ 39″ northLongitude
-87.76903° or 87° 46′ 9″ westOperator
Chicago Park DistrictOpen location code
86HJV6HJ+29OpenStreetMap ID
way 354345958OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=playground
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