Hiawatha Park
Located within the Dunning community, Hiawatha Park totals 13.88 acres and features a large gymnasium, fitness center, and club rooms. Outdoors, the park offers four baseball fields, football/soccer field, soccer pitches and a playground for the young ones. Popular in summertime, the water spray feature offers children a place to play and cool down while having a blast!
Young park-goers can enjoy arts and crafts and also play a variety of seasonal sports including basketball, flag football, floor hockey, soccer, volleyball and dodgeball at the facility or partake in one of the youth leagues offered in house. In the summer, youth attend our popular day camp.
Teens in the neighborhood should check out the teen club activities as well as volleyball,basketball , soccer and the RIT program.
Adults participate in a range of activities, including fitness, men's basketball and pickleball. Parents gather at Hiawatha Park with their preschoolers for moms, pops and tots, family arts & crafts, Kiddie college, gym monkey's and various sports like basketball, soccer and floor hockey for preschool-age residents. In the summer Play Camp is offered for the preschool-aged residents.
The seniors in the community enjoy getting together weekly for BINGO and socializing at the senior citizen club.
The staff at Hiawatha Park invites everyone to come out and play year-round at the park!
Hiawatha Park was one of many parks created through a ten-year program providing additional recreational space for post-World War II Chicago. Acquisition began in 1946 and in 1947, the ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ selected a 12-acre park site in the Dunning Community Area. Land acquisition moved slowly and was finally completed in 1955. Improvements began nearly a decade later, and Hiawatha Park opened to the public in 1958. The Park District installed a fieldhouse in subsequent years. Hiawatha Park honors an Onandaga Indian chief, who formed the League of Five Nations, the famed Iroquois confederation. Over the centuries, Hiawatha (ca. 1570) became an almost mystical figure for Native Americans, and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) further mythologized him in "The Song of Hiawatha." The park name was suggested by community residents, who wished to carry on the tradition of naming Chicago parks for Indian tribes, people, and places.
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Programs at Hiawatha Park
Each Thursday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Each Tuesday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Each Thursday from 10am to 12:30pm
Except the following dates:
Thursday, Nov 27, 2025
Each Friday from 4:30pm to 5:15pm
Each Wednesday from 7pm to 8:30pm
Each Friday from 1:30pm to 2:15pm
Each Thursday from 3:30pm to 4:15pm
Each Tuesday from 3pm to 4pm