You had so much fun with our first quiz about the Chicago Park District that we developed another one to test your knowledge of Chicago's amazing parks.

Feeling stumped? You can learn the answers to all of these questions by visiting our new exhibit, From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces, on display now at Harold Washington Library Center.

The large, domed building at the north end of Jackson Park has served as all of the following except:
- Museum of Science and Industry, opens a new window
- Field Museum, opens a new window
- World’s Columbian Exposition Palace of Fine Arts
- Shedd Aquarium, opens a new window
Soldier Field has been the venue for which of the following events:
- Chicago Bears football, opens a new window
- The first Special Olympics, opens a new window
- A rally led by Martin Luther King, Jr., opens a new window
- A ski jump
- All of the above
The exterior of Garfield Park Conservatory is designed to look like:
- A Midwestern haystack
- A rock
- A tree
- A flower
The first animals at Lincoln Park Zoo were:
- Canada geese and common squirrels
- Judy, the elephant, opens a new window, and family
- Four mute swans
- Bushman, the gorilla, opens a new window, and family
Chicago’s lakefront as we know it today was largely created by filling in Lake Michigan to create new parkland. All of the following were used to fill in the water except:
- Coal ash and construction debris from buildings going up in the Loop
- Debris from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, opens a new window
- Dredged sand and dirt from digging the Sanitary and Ship Canal, opens a new window that reversed the flow of the Chicago River
- Sand shipped in from tropical beaches in the Pacific Ocean
Park fieldhouses were first established in Chicago to provide all of the following services except:
- Bathing facilities
- Funeral home services
- Meeting spaces for classes from English language to arts and crafts
- Branch library reading rooms
In the late 1930s, the Park District fieldhouses established libraries that loaned out what type of item:
- Tools
- Children’s toys
- Clothes
- Gardening equipment
Chicago’s lakefront has hosted a number of events throughout the city’s history. Which did NOT occur on the lakefront:
Famed architect and city planner Daniel Burnham’s work made quite an imprint on Chicago. What name was given to the style or movement he began?
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