Haas Park
Park Description
Located in the Logan Square neighborhood, HaasParkis one of the best-utilized parks in the city. In fact, the community’s use of this park has outgrown this facility.Throughout the year, the park offers a variety of programs for community members.
The Park District is committed to improving recreation programs and investing in neighborhood parks across the entire city.We are very fortunate to have partners (1st Ward Alderman Manny Flores and other elected officials, Trust for Public Land, local businesses, and the Haas Park Advisory Council)that understand the importance of parks to a community’s overall health.
We are currently in process of park renovations.In spring of 2007 the newly renovated playground opened to the public.
History
Haas Park honors Joseph F. Haas (1857-1928), a widely-respected public servant. Over his 42-year career in public office, Haas was a school trustee in the Town of Jefferson, a Chicago alderman, Secretary of the Sanitary District, a state senator, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Recorder, and Secretary of the West Park Commission. The city purchased the land for this park just two months after Haas' death in 1928, and completed park plans before year's end. At the time, the surrounding Logan Square neighborhood was in the midst of a residential building boom. Large courtyard apartment buildings were springing up beside existing graystones, and open space was quickly disappearing. The new park included a small recreational building with an open-air shelter house, which the city's Department of Parks and Recreation enclosed around 1947. The city transferred the park site, along with more than 250 others, to the Chicago Park District in 1959.
