TYPE + SIZE

8 1/2 acres: Field house with gym, playlot, organic greenhouse and community garden, large field, football, baseball, soccer, tennis, basketball, shade trees, walking/running path.

LOCATION

Community: Irving Park

Ward: 30th

Just south of Addison, on Kilbourn Ave
3501 N. Kilbourn Ave. Chicago, IL 60641

HISTORY FROM THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT

Kilbourn Park takes its name from adjoining Kilbourn Street, named in honor of a small town located near the Wisconsin Dells. By the late 1920s, the park's recreational features included athletic fields, a running track, horseshoe and tennis courts, an 18-hole putting green, two playgrounds, a children's wading pool, a sand box, and penned-in rabbits. Kilbourn Park also had a fieldhouse, maintenance building, and greenhouse. A unique feature, the greenhouse was used to display tropical plants and to propagate outdoor plants for use throughout the entire Irving Park District. Clarence Hatzfeld designed all three of the buildings in Kilbourn Park. 

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Additional Park History

• 2014 TIF funding award of $350,000 for a new playground (source ChicagoCityScape.com)