Marquette Park Fieldhouse
Marquette Park Fieldhouse
The new Cal Ripen  Jr. Freedom Field
The new Cal Ripen Jr. Freedom Field
Community residents enjoying the Cal Ripen Jr. Freedom Field
Community residents enjoying the Cal Ripen Jr. Freedom Field
Marquette Park Playground
Marquette Park Playground
Marquette Park basketball courts
Marquette Park basketball courts
The beautiful lagoon
The beautiful lagoon
Golf Course at Marquette Park
Golf Course at Marquette Park
Artificial Turf Field
Artificial Turf Field
Enjoying a great trip to the Shedd Aquarium
Enjoying a great trip to the Shedd Aquarium
A joyous ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Chicago Plays! playground
A joyous ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Chicago Plays! playground
Large Gym
Large Gym
Having a fantastic time at Millennium Park
Having a fantastic time at Millennium Park
Small Gym at Marquette Park
Small Gym at Marquette Park
Celebrating USA Day at Marquette Park
Celebrating USA Day at Marquette Park
One of the many playgrounds at Marquette Park
One of the many playgrounds at Marquette Park
Club Room
Club Room
Chicago Plays! playground
Chicago Plays! playground
Location:

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629

Supervisor: Chadvas Harper
Phone Numbers: Main (312) 747-6469

 

Hours

Park Hours
Weekday 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
Weekday Time slot Comment
Sunday 9:00 am-5:00 pm
Monday 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am-9:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am-5:00 pm

Description

Located in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, Marquette Park totals 315.18 acres and features two gymnasiums, an auditorium, woodshop, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sculpture, and multi-purpose rooms. Green features of our facility include a community garden, rose garden, prairie, and 500 newly planted trees. Outside, the park offers four multi-purpose fields, an artificial turf field, 9 hole golf course, lagoon, driving range, basketball and tennis courts, two playgrounds, baseball fields, spray pool, and the Darius Monument. Many of these spaces are available for rental including our gymnasiums, auditorium, fields, and multi-purpose rooms.

Park-goers can participate in the Park Kids after school program, seasonal sports, Therapeutic Recreation, woodshop, cheerleading, gymnastics, and Cubs Care Baseball.During the summer, youth can participate in the Chicago Park District’s popular six-week day camp.Specialty camps are offered in the summer as well, and include Cheerleading/Gymnastics Camp, and Special Recreation Night Camp.

In addition to programs, Marquette Park hosts fun special events throughout the year for the entire family such as holiday-themed events.

History

Marquette Park pays tribute to Father Jacques Marquette (1637-1675), the famous French Jesuit missionary and explorer. At more than 300 acres in size, it is the largest of the revolutionary neighborhood parks created by the South Park Commission, land acquisition for the park began in 1878 and continued until 1909. Superintendent J. Frank Foster conceived the new parks as beautifully landscaped "breathing spaces" that would provide educational and social services to the City's congested immigrant neighborhoods. Nationally renowned landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers created plans for the entire system of 14 new parks in 1903. The firm's impressive scheme for Marquette Park included a golf course on two islands surrounded by naturalistic lagoons; indoor and outdoor gymnasiums; swimming and wading pools; a children's playground; formal gardens; and a concert grove. Although the first 10 neighborhood parks opened to the public in 1905, due to drainage problems and the site's large size, Marquette Park's improvements occurred slowly, often deviating from the original plan. Two of the park's earliest features were its 18-hole golf course and a nursery of nearly 90,000 trees and shrubs. The commissioners soon began converting existing frame houses and out-buildings on the site to park uses such as a warming shelter for skaters and a small fieldhouse. By 1917, the park included playing fields, a children's playground, tennis courts, propagating houses for the nursery, and a large, classically-designed golf shelter. 

In 1934, Marquette Park became part of the Chicago Park District when the City's 22 park commissions were consolidated into a single agency.  In 1935, the CPD Board of Commissioners authorized the reduction of the golf course from 18 holes to 9 holes allowing acreage to be released for the conversion of other recreational facilities.  Additionally, through the use of federal relief funds, the Park District soon converted the golf shelter into a more substantial fieldhouse, and built comfort stations, and a series of footbridges leading to the islands. Through public subscription in 1935, an Art Deco-style monument commemorating Lithuanian-American aviators Darius and Girenas was installed in Marquette Park.  In 1958, the Board of Education acquired part of the park property from the Park District for a school and decades later in 1991, the property was transferred back to the Chicago Park District.

Parking/Directions

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

Map & Facilities

Marquette Park Natural Area

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Memorial

Mann Drive
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Memorial

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Woodshop

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Fitness Course

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Volleyball Court

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Tennis Court

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Spray Pool

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Running Track

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Playground - SE

2900 W. 71st St.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Playground - NW

3450 W. Marquette Rd.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Park - Concession Maria | Concession

6734 S. Kedzie Ave
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

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(773) 957-2560

Marquette Park - Arcos Tacos | Concession

6734 S. Kedzie Ave
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Darius and Girenas Memorial

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Horseshoe Pit

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Gymnasium

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Fountains, Monuments, Sculptures

2756 West 63rd Street
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Football/Soccer Field - Turf

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Football/Soccer Field

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Fishing Area

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Fieldhouse

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Cultural Center/Fieldhouse

6721-6757 South Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Basketball Court - Outdoor

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Auditorium & Clubrooms

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

Marquette Park Golf Course - 9 hole

6700 S. Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

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(866) 223-5564
Marquette Natural Area
Marquette Park Natural Area

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Terra cotta and ceramic tiles make up podiums with relief sculptures of MLK, Jr. and other historical figures.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Memorial

Mann Drive
Chicago, IL 60629
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Memorial
Martin Luther King, Jr. Living Memorial

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Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Woodshop

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
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Marquette Fitness Course

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
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Marquette Volleyball Court

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Tennis Court

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Spray Pool

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Running Track

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Playground - SE

2900 W. 71st St.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Playground - NW

3450 W. Marquette Rd.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Park - Concession Maria | Concession

6734 S. Kedzie Ave
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Park - Arcos Tacos | Concession

6734 S. Kedzie Ave
Chicago, IL 60629
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Darius and Girenas Memorial
Darius and Girenas Memorial

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Horseshoe Pit

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Gymnasium

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Fountains, Monuments, Sculptures

2756 West 63rd Street
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Football/Soccer Field - Turf

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Football/Soccer Field

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Fishing Area

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Fieldhouse

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Cultural Center/Fieldhouse

6721-6757 South Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Basketball Court - Outdoor

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Auditorium & Clubrooms

6743 S. Kedzie Ave.
Chicago, IL 60629
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Marquette Park Golf Course - 9 hole

6700 S. Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL 60629
United States

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    (866) 223-5564
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