Welcome to Touhy Park!
Welcome to Touhy Park!
ChicagoPlays! playground at Touhy Park.
ChicagoPlays! playground.
Earth Day Volunteers at Touhy Park.
Location:

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626

Supervisor: Misty Mitchell
Phone Numbers: Main (773) 262-6737

 

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-5:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am-2:00 pm

Description

Located in the Rogers Park community between Clark and Paulina Streets, Touhy Park covers 6.63 acres, with two softball fields, two tennis courts, and two playgrounds.

A small fieldhouse allows children to participate in a number of activities. Weekly programming focuses on early childhood recreation (18 months-5 years) during the morning hours. Nature based programs such as the children's harvest garden are popular at the park. For those of you with a green thumb we invite you come out to the park and get involved in the community garden.

The park advisory council, made up of local neighborhood residents, meets regularly to discuss maintenance, programming and events at the park.

History

Soon after World War II, the Chicago Park District began a major initiative to create new parks for the first time in many years. This Ten Year Plan identified 43 sites in undeveloped areas which were starting to boom and neighborhoods with few existing parks. In 1946 and 1950, the Park District acquired over six and a half acres including the vacation of streets and alleys within the new park footprint in Rogers Park, which at that time was among the City's neighborhoods most in need of open space and recreational facilities. Due to the flurry of new construction at the time, Touhy Park was not completed until 1954. In the 1960s, the Park District built an addition converting the original comfort station into a fieldhouse. In 1990, separate soft surface playgrounds for older children and tots were added.

The park and nearby Touhy Avenue pay tribute to Captain Patrick L. Touhy (1839-1911) one of the founders of the Village of Rogers Park. An Irish immigrant who ran a grocery store in Chicago, Touhy married Catherine Rogers, daughter of the area's first white settler, Philip Rogers, in 1865. Several years later, when Catherine inherited hundreds of acres of land, Touhy began developing Rogers Park. Along with a group of other early settlers, he soon established the Rogers Park Building and Land Company. Formally incorporated as a village in 1878, Rogers Park was annexed to Chicago in 1893, and is now among the City's most diverse neighborhoods.

Advisory Council

Contact: JIll Liska,   President
Phone: (312) 371-9721
Meeting Details:

2nd Monday of odd month at 7 p.m.

Parking/Directions

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

Map & Facilities

The Receptor | Artwork

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Clubroom

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Baseball Field

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Fieldhouse

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Football/Soccer

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Picnic area

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Playground

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Tennis Court

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

Touhy Park Community Garden

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
United States

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Chicago, IL 60626
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Touhy Clubroom

7348 N. Paulina St.
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Touhy Baseball Field

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
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Touhy Fieldhouse

7348 N. Paulina St.
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Touhy Football/Soccer

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
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Touhy Picnic area

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
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Touhy Playground
Touhy Playground

7348 N. Paulina St.
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Touhy Tennis Court

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
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Touhy Park Community Garden

7348 N. Paulina St.
Chicago, IL 60626
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