Welcome to Chopin Park!
Welcome to Chopin Park!
Chopin Park 2021 JR Bears team.
Chopin Park Colts - JR Bears Team
JR. Bears 2021 Walter Payton Finalist - Devon
Meet our staff at Chopin Park!
Meet our staff at Chopin Park!
Check out our tennis court!
Check out our tennis court!
Check out our newly renovated Chicago Plays Playground
Check out our newly renovated Chicago Plays Playground
Location:

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641

Supervisor: Luigi Derango
Phone Numbers: Main (773) 685-3247

 

Hours

Park Hours
Day Time slot Comment
Sunday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Monday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Tuesday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Wednesday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Thursday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Friday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Saturday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Fieldhouse Hours
Day Time slot Comment
Sunday Closed
Monday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Saturday Closed

Description

Chopin Park totals 9.28 acres and is situated in the Portage Park community. The historic fieldhouse contains an assembly hall with a stage and seven rooms, where many preschool and music classes take place. The park also offers a Park Kids after-school program that attracts local students.

Beyond its expansive welcome garden and fieldhouse, Chopin Park offers athletes a senior and two junior baseball fields, a softball field, a combination football/soccer field, four basketball standards, four tennis courts, four horseshoe courts and a sand volleyball court. Young children enjoy the park’s playground and spray pool. Young park-goers can play flag football, floor hockey, indoor soccer, and outdoor tennis at the facility.

On the cultural side, Chopin Park offers arts and crafts, guitar, piano and other instrumental music classes. In the summer, youth attend day camp, and pre-teens participate in leadership camp. Adults participate in a range of activities, including piano, instrumental music classes, and 16” softball. Parents gather at Chopin Park with their preschoolers for moms, pops and tots. Preschool, sing-a-long, music and movement, and arts and crafts classes are also available for preschool-age residents.

History

Chopin Park was created by the Old Portage Park District, one of 22 independent park commissions consolidated into the Chicago Park District in 1934.  In 1931, the Old Portage Park District purchased just over 9 acres and vacated alleys and streets for the future park. This park is located in what was then a predominantly Polish southeastern corner of the rapidly growing Portage Park Community Area. The park was soon well equipped with baseball and football fields, tennis and horseshoe courts, and a playground. The site also included an impressive brick fieldhouse with a 300-seat assembly/banquet hall and various game and clubrooms. The Georgian Revival-style fieldhouse was identical to those at the Old Portage Park District's nearby Shabbona and Wilson Parks. Recognizing the Polish heritage of many area residents, the Old Portage Park District named the park for the great Polish-born French composer and pianist Frederic Francois Chopin (1810--1849). A child prodigy, Chopin first played in public at the age of eight, and began composing shortly thereafter. He is best known for his many compositions for solo piano. In the mid-1930s, not long after Chopin Park became part of the unified Chicago Park District, the new agency remodeled the fieldhouse. Over the years, the facility drew neighborhood residents for a wide variety of indoor activities, including pre-school and mothers' clubs, gymnastics, social dancing, crafts, citizenship classes. Particularly appropriate given its name, a local orchestra practiced at the fieldhouse, performing concerts in the auditorium. The Chicago Park District also made various outdoor improvements, including constructing a wading pool with sand pits and shelters in 1948, installing a basketball court in 1975, and regularly rehabilitating various park facilities and greenspaces.

Parking/Directions

For directions using public transportation visit www.transitchicago.com.

Map & Facilities

Chopin Auditorium & Clubrooms

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Baseball Fields

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Fieldhouse

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Football/Soccer

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Horseshoes

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Playground

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Water Spray Feature

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Tennis Courts

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Volleyball Court (Sand)

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

Chopin Basketball

3420 N. Long Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
United States

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Chopin Horseshoes

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Chopin Playground
Chopin Playground

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Chopin Water Spray Feature

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Chopin Tennis Courts

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Chopin Volleyball Court (Sand)

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Chopin Basketball

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