Algonquin Playlot Park (c/o Brands Park)
History
The City of Chicago created Algonquin Park in 1949, transferring it to the Chicago Park District in 1959. Created as a small gravel playlot, the site was rehabilitated in 1970, and again in 1990 as part of the park district’s soft surface playground program. For many years, the property was known as Washtenaw Park, presumably for the street on which it is located. In 1999, the park district changed the park's name to Algonquin to avoid confusion with a second WashtenawPark on Chicago's south side. The Algonquins were a large family of Native American tribes linked by language. At one time, the Algonquins occupied territory extending from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains, a larger area of North America than any other Indian group. A number of Algonquin tribes lived in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. These included the Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, Mascouten, Potowatomi, and Miami.