Buttercup Playlot Park (c/o Broadway Armory Park)
History In 1973, the Chicago Park District purchased this property from the City of Chicago's Department of Urban Renewal, which had cleared the lot two years before. Development of the new park would benefit children attending McCutcheon School immediately to the south, as well as senior citizens in a neighboring Chicago Housing Authority building. Officially named Buttercup Park in 1974, the playground was one of a number of parks named for trees and plants at this time. The buttercup's name derives from English dairy farmers' former belief that if their cows ate these flowers, the animals would produce butter of the same bright, rich yellow. In fact, feeding on buttercups did improve the quality of the butter because the flowers grow only on good pastureland.
