This was subdivided into a Potter's Field, Catholic cemetery, Jewish cemetery, and the general City Cemetery.
Five years later, on June 12, 1865, the park was renamed to honor the recently assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.Īdded to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, part of the oldest section of today's Lincoln Park near North Avenue began its existence as the City Cemetery in 1843. In 1860, Lake Park (earlier, Cemetery Park), the precursor of today's park, was established by the city on the lands just to the north of the city's burial ground. There are landscaped gardens, public art, bird refuges, a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Chicago History Museum, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, and a theater on the lake with regular outdoor performances held during the summer. The park also features several harbors with boating facilities, as well as public beaches for swimming. The park's recreational facilities include baseball/softball fields, basketball courts, beach volleyball courts, cricket pitches, football/soccer fields, a golf course, lacrosse fields, rugby pitches, tennis courts, volleyball courts, field houses, a target archery field, a skate park, and a driving range. With 20 million visitors per year, Lincoln Park is the second-most-visited city park in the United States, behind Central Park. To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. Further to the north, the park is characterized by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors. Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the eponymous neighborhood. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
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