Peterson Park Fieldhouse
Welcome to Peterson Park!
Mighty Fit Kids!
Mighty Fit Kids!
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Learn more about our fitness center memberships!
Senior Club at Peterson Park
We have an awesome Senior Club!
Tennis Courts at Peterson Park
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Location:

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646

Supervisor: Jennifer Printzlau
Phone Numbers: Main (312) 742-7584
Features: Free Lot Parking

 

Hours

Park Hours
Day Time slot Comment
Sunday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Monday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Tuesday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Wednesday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Thursday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Friday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Saturday: 7:00 am-10:00 pm
Fieldhouse Hours
Day Time slot Comment
Sunday Closed
Monday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Saturday Closed

Description

The scenic, wooded 23-acre Peterson Park create the perfect setting for community members to enjoy the outdoors. Outside, Peterson Park’s two soccer fields are constantly filled with young players. The park also features four tennis courts, a brand new playground, two softball fields, six basketball standards, and beautiful walking paths throughout the park.

At the park field house, youth can enjoy Mighty Fit Kids, Arts & Crafts, and Acting. Peterson Park has many early childhood programs that include Kiddie College, Mom, Pops, Tots, Young Scientists, Junior Detectives, Arts & ABC’s, Dino Diggers, Music & Movement and many more. There is also a fitness center for adults. The senior social club thrives at Peterson Park, meeting weekly and scheduling trips to exciting destinations across the city.

Peterson Park is even more known for its state-of-the-art gymnastics center, which offers quality instruction for beginners to advanced competitors year-round. The gymnastic center and park field house sit within the city’s North Park Village, just off of Peterson and Pulaski Avenues. 

History

In the 1970s, the City decided to redevelop the under-used sanitarium property as North Park Village, a campus for City programs and social services. The redevelopment plan called for transforming the original hospital and grounds into senior citizen housing, a school for the developmentally disabled, and a wooded, 46-acre nature preserve. In addition, nearly 23 acres were developed as parkland. Thereafter, the Chicago Park District began leasing the site from the City and still does today, and soon improved it with playgrounds, basketball and volleyball courts, and athletic fields. An existing building provided space for indoor recreation. Improvements made in the 1990s included the addition of two soft surface playgrounds and the creation of a gymnastics center in another of the old sanitarium buildings.

On October 10, 1978, the Park District Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance naming this park, “Peher S. Peterson Park”.  Peterson Park honors Pehr Samuel Peterson (1830-1903), a pioneer nurseryman and early inhabitant of the Swedish community known as Peterson Woods, in what is now the North Park neighborhood. Arriving in the United States in 1850, Peterson came west to Chicago four years later and started a landscape nursery northwest of the City, eventually acquiring over 500 acres of land. Peterson developed an innovative technique for transplanting large trees from his nursery. Peterson's trees soon shaded many Chicago parks and boulevards, including Jackson Park, which was made lush and green for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Peterson also was active in Swedish-American civic and religious groups. The King of Sweden knighted him for his accomplishments. Several years after Peterson's death in 1903, his family donated 160 acres of land to the City of Chicago for a municipal tuberculosis sanitarium. When the sanitarium opened in 1915, TB was the Western World's leading killer, but by mid-century, improved public hygiene and the advent of vaccines and antimicrobial drugs had drastically reduced the incidence of the disease.

Parking/Directions

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

Free parking is available in our lot

Map & Facilities

Peterson Gymnastics Center

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60611
United States

:
(312) 742-0490

Mural at Peterson | Artwork

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Basketball Courts

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Clubrooms

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Fieldhouse

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Fitness Center

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Football/Soccer Fields

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Picnic Area

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Playground

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Softball Fields

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Peterson Tennis Courts

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
United States

Tennis courts at Peterson Park
Peterson Tennis Courts

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Park Gymnastics Center
Peterson Gymnastics Center

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60611
United States

:
(312) 742-0490
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Mural
Mural at Peterson | Artwork

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Basketball Courts

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Clubrooms

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Fieldhouse

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Fitness Center
Peterson Fitness Center

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Football/Soccer Fields

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
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Peterson Picnic Area

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
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Peterson Playground
Peterson Playground

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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Peterson Softball Fields

5801 N. Pulaski Rd.
Chicago, IL 60646
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