Nature Areas
Gompers Park Lagoon
Direction: The Gompers Park lagoon is located at the southwest corner of Foster Avenue and Pulaski Road. The entrance to the parking lot nearest the lagoon and wetland is on Pulaski Road. The Gompers Park field house is located at 4222 W. Foster Avenue.
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Description:
Surrounded by mature stands of oak trees, some more than 200 years old, the Gomper’s Park lagoon is one of the city’s hottest fishing spots. In 2000 the Chicago Park District restored this one-acre lagoon by deepening the lagoon, improving the lagoon edge with aquatic plantings, and adding limestone-fishing stations and boardwalks. The restored lagoon thrives with aquatic life including stocked fish, waterstriders, crayfish, dragonflies and other insects, turtles, tadpoles, and frogs. Herons are often seen feeding on the lively abundance of food along the water’s edge.
Chicago Park District
Department of Natural Resources
February 2002