by Krista August | Jul 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Chicago Tribune reported that a quarter of a million people came out for the unveiling of Lincoln Park’s Ulysses S. Grant statue on October 7th, 1891.* Twenty thousand patriots met first downtown and marched north to Lincoln Park in a parade celebrating...
by Krista August | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Tablet presented to historical society Voices from afar off call us...
by Krista August | May 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
The oldest statue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park commands a remote lakefront location, slightly north of Diversey Harbor. This life-sized, naturalistic bronze depicts an Ottawa family of Indians, the mother, the father and the baby with a wolf-like dog.** An old...