Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is the most fashionable urban area in Chicago, where every second inhabitant of the city dreams of living. They say that the quiet, homely, cozy streets of this area are considered the most beautiful, and a large park area allows you to feel unity with nature, which is so lacking residents of the metropolis.

Of course, the heart of the area is the park, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. Looking today at its manicured alleys, elaborate park infrastructure, it is hard to imagine that there was once a public cemetery here. Until the middle of the XIX century, the dead of smallpox and cholera were buried here. Chicago residents have drawn attention to the insecurity of this neighborhood. Subsequently, the bodies were reburied and the park area was significantly expanded.

Throughout the history of the park, the most famous architects and landscape designers took part in its arrangement. Since 1868, the Chicago Zoo has been operating here. There is a playground for archery, baseball, basketball. Part of the coast is equipped for the beach. In the area of Lincoln Park are the Conservatory, the Chicago Historical Museum, the Museum of Nature, rowing canal. Here you can see the well-known monument to Abraham Lincoln, embodied in the metal of William Shakespeare and Hans-Christian Andersen, Carl Linnaeus and Johann Schiller.