Quiz: Do You Know Chicago’s Parks?

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Congratulations, Chicago, you've made it to summer! If you're reading this, though, you're probably stuck inside wishing you were enjoying one of Chicago's amazing parks instead. Now you can experience the parks virtually. We're proud to announce our Chicago Park District Photograph Digital Collection. Explore 10,000 images from parks all over the city and from throughout history. Want even more? Come to Special Collections to view over 50,000 more images and over 100,000 architectural and landscape drawings. And in the meantime, test your knowledge of Chicago Parks history by taking our quiz.

Chicago’s boulevard system was developed alongside its parks to connect major parks with a “ribbon of green.” Garfield Boulevard passes through which parks?
The City department that eventually became the Chicago Park District began with which six parks around the city?
Which of these famous Washingtons does NOT have a Chicago park named for them?
Which of these famous Jacksons does NOT have a Chicago park named for them?
Which of these parks has NOT hosted a major music festival in the 21st century?
Which of these statements is false?
Martin Luther King, Jr. was struck by a thrown rock in which park while marching for fair housing practices?
Burnham Park’s Soldier Field has hosted all of the following events except:
Much of Chicago’s lakefront is now developed as parkland. This was not always the case. All of the following used to be on the lakefront except:
In 1959, the Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago transferred management of a number of functions between them. Which did NOT transfer?
J. Frank Foster, the superintendent of the South Park Commission, developed the idea for a new kind of park. Rather than the large, vast strolling grounds of the elite, he conceived of smaller, neighborhood parks for working-class citizens who lived nearby that would provide services not previously available such as playgrounds for children, swimming pools and a Chicago innovation: the fieldhouse, which in turn housed library branches, rooms where people could take art, craft and English classes, and space to provide health care. Which park was the first of this new kind of park?
What was the original purpose for the buildings that now house the North Park Village Nature Center and Theater on the Lake?
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