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Burnham Park

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Burnham Park
Address: 425 E Mcfetridge Dr
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone: 773-256-0949;
Web: www.chicagoparkdistrict.com
Size: 598 acres.
Location: Lake Michigan lakefront, south from downtown between 25th and 59th streets.
Facilities: Boat launches, swimming beach, walking trails, playgrounds, ball fields, sports courts, stadium.
Activities: Boating, bicycling, horseback riding, baseball, basketball, football, soccer, volleyball, tennis, roller blading, hiking.
Special Features: Site of Chicago's second World's Fair in 1933. A sanctuary for migratory birds is currently under construction on top of the McCormick Place's underground parking garage. It will include viewing platforms, a water feature, five acres of short prairie grass, and hundreds of native trees and shrubs.

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It has the Burnham Park where guests can truly enjoy a day of boating, biking, and strolling.
The Burnham park, one of 19 in the British Holidays brochure, was pretty much full, with families who had driven down the M5 mainly from the Midlands or across the Severn Bridge from South Wales.
I am in Powell's Burnham Park bookstore, just south of the Loop in Chicago, on a book crawl, and I am thinking of Bruce Cook, friend, and novelist who died in Los Angeles last November.
 
 
 
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