. Chicago. #i^W .^ mn 4WA -A. f ft***- {•{?%? The North Side Webster Avenue, all the southern portionof its present acreage having once been acemetery. Toward the end of the CivilWar, when the Common Council hadforbidden further burials in the cemetery,it was called Lake Park; a name borneonly for a few months, however, for afterthe assassination of the Great Emancipa-tor his name was given to it. Within my lifetime Lincoln Park hasquintupled in area, partly by the absorp-tion of the Chicago Cemetery, partly bythe filling in each summer of a portionof the lake; it being the intention of itscom
. Chicago. #i^W .^ mn 4WA -A. f ft***- {•{?%? The North Side Webster Avenue, all the southern portionof its present acreage having once been acemetery. Toward the end of the CivilWar, when the Common Council hadforbidden further burials in the cemetery,it was called Lake Park; a name borneonly for a few months, however, for afterthe assassination of the Great Emancipa-tor his name was given to it. Within my lifetime Lincoln Park hasquintupled in area, partly by the absorp-tion of the Chicago Cemetery, partly bythe filling in each summer of a portionof the lake; it being the intention of itscommissioners eventually to extend it bythis means some two or three miles northof its present limits. Although it was once fastidiously pro-vided with keep off the grass signs toprevent joy and gladness, it is to-dayquite as much of a playground as apark, with tennis courts, baseball fields, 107 Chicago golf courses, yacht harbors, and bathing-beaches, and I doubt if in all the worldthere is a civic domain so widely or so
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