Gross Park is a public park in Lake View, Chicago located at the 1700 West block of Henderson St between Paulina St and Ravenswood Ave.[1] Its maintenance is shared between the Chicago Park District and Gross Park Neighbors Foundation, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.[2] Each summer the park hosts a Shakespeare in the Park event.[3]

The park memorializes Samuel Eberly Gross, the property developer of the neighborhood in the 1880’s. He took inspiration from the boulevards of Europe and included a green space in his urban plan for the area, which at the time was outside of the urban area of Chicago.


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