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Washington Square Park (Chicago)

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Washington Square Park has been the geographic center of Chicago public speeches. By the 1890s the park acquired its Bughouse Square moniker. Soapbox orators waxed on topics ranging from gender relations to Communism. It served as a home for soapbox orators on warm-weather evenings from the 1910s to
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Although Alderman McCormick's fountain was removed in the 1970s, in the late 1990s, the park district, the city, and neighborhood organizations agreed on a restoration plan for Washington Square. Improvements include a reconstructed historic fountain, period lighting, fencing, and new plantings. In
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McCormick became President of Drainage Board in 1906, the fountain had been razed and the park had deteriorated. Alderman McCormick devoted his aldermanic salary to improving the park. He donated a $ 600 fountain, and the city allocated an additional $ 10,000 to rehabilitate the park. By the 1910s,
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designation included the park, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street and 915 to 929 North Dearborn Street. The first Chicago Landmark district extension on July 10, 2002 included 22-28 and 27-31 West Chestnut Street and 802-818, 827-867, 1012, 1023-1029, and 1150-1154 North Dearborn Street. The
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On September 4, 1842, the city received a 3-acre (12,000 m) parcel that was donated by the members of the American Land Company for use as a public park. The property had once been a cow path with a well for farmers to water their cattle. The donors stipulated the name Washington Square.
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free speech gathering in conjunction with the Newberry Library's annual book sale. The debates are part of an annual festival to recreate the atmosphere of speeches and debates by soap box orators that once flourished in the park.
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Note: A National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination document describing the district should be available upon request from the National Park Service, although it appears not to be available on-line from the
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The original purpose of the neighborhood park was as a place of assembly to discuss community issues. Chicago has a long storied history of public speeches both for entertainment and educational purposes. The
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Between 1869 and the 1890s, the city improved Washington Square with lawn, trees, bisecting diagonal walks, limestone coping, picket fencing, and an attractive Victorian fountain. By the time
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the west part of the park, there is a memorial tablet designating the park as "Chicago's Premier Free Speech Forum."
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included Washington Square as well as North Dearborn Street from West Walton Street to West Chicago Avenue.
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May 11, 2005 extension added the Isaac Maynard Row Houses located at 119-123 West Delaware Place. The
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among homosexuals. Six years later, it played host to Chicago's first Gay Pride March.
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Chicago Gay Pride, 1971, pamphlet avail. in stacks of Newberry Library, Chicago
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Washington Square, N. Dearborn St., from W. Walton St. to W. Chicago Ave.,
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Every July, the Bughouse Square Committee continues to oversee the annual
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the neighborhood surrounding Washington Square had become more diverse.
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on May 16, 1990. The original 1990 Washington Square Park District
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on August 21, 2003. The Washington Square District was declared a
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featured an article saying that it was a meeting place for
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Land Subdivisions with Set-Aside Parks, Chicago, IL MPS
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Official City of Chicago Near North Side Community Map
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inspired the club to provide $ 80,000 to publish the
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Washington Square Park, Chicago
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Washington Square Park
Newberry Library
Washington Square Park (Chicago) is located in Near North Side, Chicago
Chicago
41°53′57″N 87°37′50″W / 41.89917°N 87.63056°W / 41.89917; -87.63056
MPS
91000566
Chicago, Illinois
Newberry Library
Clark Street
Near North Side
community area
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago
Chicago Park District
Washington
Washington Park
Harold Washington Park
Dinah Washington Park
National Register of Historic Places

Alderman
Haymarket Riot
Daniel Burnham
Commercial Club of Chicago
Burnham Plan
Speakers' Corner

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