Lincoln Park

Aerial view of seven mile long Lincoln Park shoreline

Lincoln Park is a 1,208 acre (488.86 ha) park along the lakefront of Chicago, Illinois' North Side, facing Lake Michigan. It is Chicago's largest public park. It is named after Abraham Lincoln.

It stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Ohio Street (600 N) on the south to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue.

Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the neighborhood that takes its name from the park, Lincoln Park. The park further to the north is surrounded by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors.

To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. With 20 million visitors a year, Lincoln Park is the second most visited park in the United States (after New York City's Central Park).

Lincoln Park Media

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  Couch Mausoleum in Lincoln Park, October 2013. This mausoleum is the only standing remnant of the cemetery that existed in part of Lincoln Park in the 19th century.

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  Image from Harper's Weekly of people escaping the Great Chicago Fire by fleeing to the cemetery in Lincoln Park

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  A concert in Lincoln Park circa 1907

• Anti-Vietnam War protesters in Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The band MC5 can be seen playing.

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  Lincoln Park Zoo Nature Boardwalk

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  Lincoln Park conservatory in Chicago

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  The Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool in Lincoln Park is a National Historic Landmark listing.

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  Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum–Chicago Academy of Sciences, south wing, with tallgrass prairie overlook

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  A postcard of the park circa 1900

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  View of Chicago from the South Pond bridge in July 2018

• Beaver in North Pond in 2014