Gross Park

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Gross Park is a public park in Lakeview, 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 501(c)(3) nonprofit 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.

In 1998, the invasive Asian long-horned beetle caused the loss of many trees in the park; [4] the Chicago Park District and Gross Park Neighbors Foundation began restoration the following year. In 2008, the Illinois Department of Agriculture announced that it had eradicated the Asian long-horned beetle in Chicago. [5]

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References

  1. Gross Park
  2. Gross Park Neighbors Foundation
  3. Shakespeare in the Park
  4. "Asian Longhorned Beetle". City of Chicago.
  5. "Asian Longhorned Beetle". Morton Arboretum.