Washtenaw Park
Located in the South Lawndale Community Area, Washtenaw Park totals 1 acre and features a small field house with a game room. Outside, the park offers a softball field and playground.
After school programs are offered throughout the school year, and in the summer youth attend the Park District鈥檚 popular six-week day camp.
In addition to programs, Washtenaw Park hosts fun special events throughout the year for the whole family, such as holiday events.
The City of Chicago created Washtenaw Park in 1947, constructing a playing field, skating pond, shelter house, and spray pool shortly thereafter. The Bureau of Parks and Recreation, which operated Washtenaw Park for the City, erected a fieldhouse in 1948. In 1957, the City transferred Washtenaw Park to the 快播视频 pursuant to the Chicago Park and City Exchange of Functions Act.
Although there is no record of this park's naming, the Bureau of Parks and Recreation often used adjacent street names for purposes of identification. Washtenaw Street may take its name from one of several sources. A Michigan county bears the name. The Algonquin Indian term Washtenaw - literally, "the place of the round or curved channel" - was used to refer to the settlement at Detroit. Washtenaw is also an Ojibway word meaning "far-off," and first applied to a Michigan stream.
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Facilities at Washtenaw Park
Programs at Washtenaw Park
Each Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 10am to 4pm
Except the following dates:
Friday, Jul 4, 2025
Each Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 9am to 10am
Except the following dates:
Friday, Jul 4, 2025
Each Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday from 10am to 3pm
Except the following dates:
Friday, Jul 4, 2025