Sacramento Playlot Park (c/o Brands Park)
History
Sacramento Park is one of many small parks created by the city's Bureau of Parks and Recreation to meet increasing recreational demands in post-World War II Chicago. In 1950, the bureau purchased this small property on Sacramento Avenue in the Avondale neighborhood, and soon improved the site with playground equipment, a basketball court, and a ballfield. Following the bureau's general practice, the park was named for the adjacent street. (Sacramento, a Spanish word meaning "sacrament," is also the name of the capital of California.) In 1959, the city transferred Sacramento Park to the Chicago Park District, which installed a new soft surface playground in 1992.
