DuSable Park (Chicago)
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An aerial view of DuSable Park.
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| Type | Municipal |
| Location | Near North Side (Chicago) |
| Coordinates | 41°53′22″N 87°36′48″W / 41.88944°N 87.61333°W |
| Area | 3.24 acres (13,100 m2) |
DuSable Park is a 3.24 acres (13,100 m2) urban park in Chicago, Illinois currently awaiting redevelopment. It was originally announced in 1987 by then Mayor Harold Washington. The park is to be named after Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the first non-native settler of Chicago.
The park is located directly east of North Lake Shore Drive and south of Lake Point Tower and Navy Pier, with Lake Michigan to its east. To its north is the entrance to the Ogden Slip and to its south is the mouth of the Chicago River. The canceled Chicago Spire project had been planned for a site just west of DuSable Park, on the other side of Lake Shore Drive.
Following the construction of the original jetty for the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, lake currents were affected and soil was deposited at the area now known as DuSable Park. In 1857 the State of Illinois sold 40 acres (160,000 m2), including the site later to be known as DuSable Park, to the Chicago Dock and Canal Trust. In 1893 the company dug out the Ogden Slip to allow boats to pull cargo from railroads at North Pier and the DuSable Park site was filled in by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.
In 1948 the Chicago Plan Commission passed a resolution excluding use of lakefront property to only recreation or for harbor or terminal facilities for passenger and freight vessels. In 1964 the Chicago Dock and Canal trust leased the land to the developers of Lake Point Tower. Later, Chicago Dock and Canal Trust sold the land south of the tower to a division of Centex called Centex Homes with an option to build additional towers on the site that is now DuSable Park.
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