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What to do and see in Lincoln Park, Illinois (IL): The Best Sights & Landmarks
The windy city is a cornucopia of modern art, fine dining, cutting edge comedy, and die-hard sports fans. Snap a photo of your reflection in the silver Cloud Gate sculpture at Millennium Park before heading to Grant Park to get hit with the refreshing spray of Buckingham Fountain. There are dozens of museums and theater companies in Chicago, so a cultural experience is never hard to find. You’re sure to laugh your head off at the Second City Theater, the professional launch pad of many famous comedians.
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1. Bridge Over South Pond
2. Elks National Memorial
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4.5 based on 33 reviews
A monument in the truest sense, the Elks National Memorial was built in 1926 to honor Americans whose profound sacrifices for the nation can never be recognized by mere words. With its massive dome, heroic sculptures and intricately detailed friezes, the Memorial is a distinctively American interpretation of classical greatness.
3. Saint Clement Church
4. Ulysses S. Grant Monument
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4.5 based on 8 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
You can't miss it. Not if you're walking or jogging through Chicago's Lincoln Park or driving along Lake Shore Drive. My wife and I pass by the impressive structure during our frequent walks through the park or on our way to Lincoln Park Zoo. It is the Ulysses S. Grant Monument, which memorializes the Civil War hero and two-term President of the United States. Located at 2045 North Lincoln Park West, west of North Cannon Drive between West Fullerton Avenue and East North Avenue, overlooking Lake Shore Drive and North Avenue Beach and Lincoln Park and the Lincoln Park lagoon and Lake Michigan, the 18-foot-tall equestrian bronze sculpture stands on a massive Romanesque arched base of rusticated stone. Designed by Cincinnati-based artist Louis T. Rebisso, it portrays Grant sitting on his favorite horse Cincinnati and facing south. It was installed in 1891 and more than 200,000 people attended the ceremonies, including Grant's widow. Grant died in 1885. It is the most significant landmark in Lincoln Park and perhaps the most impressive sculpture of its size in the city.
5. Lincoln Monument
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4.0 based on 29 reviews
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
My wife and I can look out our dining room window from out home on Chicago's Gold Coast and see the larger-than life, 12-foot bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln: The Man in nearby Lincoln Park, adjacent to the Chicago History Museum at North Avenue and Clark Street. Also called the Standing Lincoln, it is the original statue of the 16th president of the United States. Several replicas have been installed in other places around the world. The original, completed in 1887 by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, has been described as the most important sculpture of Lincoln from the 19th century. At the time of its unveiling, the New York Evening Post called it "the most important achievement that American sculpture has yet produced." The sculpture depicts a contemplative Lincoln rising from a chair, about to give a speech. It is set upon a pedestal and, in Chicago, is framed by an exedra or semicircular platform with a bench designed by noted architect Stanford White. In 2001, the city of Chicago awarded the monument landmark status.
6. Couch Mausoleum
7. Biograph Theatre
8. St. Josaphat Church
9. Lincoln Park Neighborhood
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10. Alexander Hamilton Monument
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4.0 based on 2 reviews
