Rosedale Park
Park Description
Located one block south of Peterson Avenue, just east of Nagle Avenue, Rosedale Park may only cover two and one-half acres, but it packs into its schedule sports, recreational and leisure opportunities for all ages and interests.
One of Rosedale Park’s most popular programs is soccer. The park offers both indoor and outdoor soccer leagues for children ages 4-13. Other sports include basketball, Nerf football, flag football, baseball, roller hockey, tennis, track and field and teen volleyball. Children may learn piano, tap and ballet, arts and crafts or recreational tumbling skills.
The park serves a number of young preschoolers with classes such as tiny tot tumbling, dance, music and movement, storytime, playgroup, arts, and moms, pops and tots, which involves parent participation.
Adults can play on 16” softball leagues at this park and a number of surrounding area parks. Rosedale also offers a senior stretch class.
In addition to its fieldhouse with gymnasium, Rosedale Park features one softball field, one junior-size soccer field, three basketball standards, two tennis courts, two playgrounds, one spraypool and one sandbox.
History
Rosedale Park was the creation of the Jefferson Park District, established in 1920 to provide neighborhood parks for its rapidly-developing northwest side community. The park district began to purchase land for Rosedale Park in 1930. By 1933, the district had issued contracts for site development, including an agreement to build a fieldhouse, one of three designed for the district by architect Clarence Hatzfeld. The following year, the park came under the control of the Chicago Park District when the Jefferson Park District and 21 other park commissions merged to form the new consolidated district.
Rosedale Park takes its name from the avenue that runs along its southern border. The street was in turn named for Rosedale, Pennsylvania, the hometown of John Lewis Cochran (1857-1923), the developer of the Edgewater community along Chicago's lakeshore.
