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[{"id": 1, "title": "Abbott (Robert) Park", "address": "\n 49 E. 95th St. \n Chicago, IL 60628\n ", "description": "Located in the Roseland Community Area, Abbott Park totals 25\u00a0acres and features a multi-purpose room and game room. Outside, the park offers four baseball diamonds, basketball, track and tennis courts, swimming pool, and two sprinklers. Many of these spaces are available for rental including our multi-purpose room and game room.\n\nPark-goers can participate in seasonal sports,\u00a0cheerleading,\u00a0aerobics, senior and teen clubs. On the cultural side, Abbott Park offers dance, music and movement. After school programs are offered throughout the school year, and during the summer youth can attend the Park District\u2019s popular six-week day camp.Specialty camps, including Sports Camp, are also offered in the summer.\n\nIn addition to programs, Abbott Park hosts fun special events throughout the year for the entire family including\u00a0holiday events.\u00a0\n ", "history": "The Chicago Park District acquired the site of Abbott Park as part of a ten-year plan to increase recreational opportunities in under-served neighborhoods in post-World War II Chicago. \u00a0In 1947, the Citizens Advisory Committee on Park Sites recommended the creation of a park to serve the rapidly growing African-American community near 95th Street and Michigan Avenue. \u00a0The Park District purchased the property southeast of that intersection in 1949 and 1950, and built a swimming pool and recreational facility the following year. \u00a0In 1956, the District sold a portion of the parkland to the Board of Education for use as Harlan High School.\n\nRobert Sengstacke Abbott (1868-1940), for whom the park is named, founded the influential Chicago Defender in 1905. \u00a0Born in Georgia, Abbott received his education in southern schools, and graduated from Chicago's Kent College of Law. \u00a0He was the only African-American in the class of 1899. \u00a0Abbott's lofty goal was to eliminate racial prejudice through his newspaper. \u00a0To promote racial equality, Abbott and his Chicago Defender newspaper urged southern blacks to migrate to Chicago and other northern cities for greater economic opportunity. \u00a0By 1918, the influential newspaper had a national circulation of 125,000, making it the largest-selling black newspaper in the country. \u00a0President of his Abbott Publishing Company, Abbott was also active in civic affairs.\u00a0 He served on Governor Frank O. Lowden's Race Relations Committee in 1919, on the Board of Commissioners of the Chicago World's Fair in 1934, and on the boards of the Art Institute, the Field Museum, and the Chicago Historical Society.\n "}, {"id": 2, "title": "Ada (Sawyer Garrett) Park", "address": "\n 11250 S. Ada St. \n Chicago, IL 60643\n ", "description": "Located in the Morgan Park Community Area, Ada Park totals 16.65\u00a0acres and features an auditorium, gymnasium, fitness center, and multi-purpose clubrooms. Outside, the park offers a swimming pool, baseball diamonds, basketball/tennis courts. Many of these spaces are available for rental including our auditorium, gymnasium and multi-purpose clubrooms.\n\nPark-goers can participate in Park Kids, seasonal sports,\u00a0tumbling,\u00a0teen, and senior clubs. After school programs are offered throughout the school year, and in the summer youth attend the Park District\u2019s popular six-week day camp.\n\nIn addition to programs, Ada Park hosts fun special events including family holiday themed celebrations throughout the year for the entire family.\n ", "history": "Created in 1930, Ada Park provided recreational facilities for the Morgan Park neighborhood's expanding African-American population. Initially, acquisition began in 1930.\u00a0 Acquisition to expand the park was finalized in 1955; streets and alleys were vacated in 1957 to complete the 16.65-acre park.\u00a0 The park was the last of those developed by the Calumet Park District, established in 1903. The Calumet Park District was o
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