Lincoln Park, Chicago’s largest public park, stretches along Lake Michigan as one of the nation’s busiest urban green spaces and a centerpiece of the city’s public shoreline. Created in 1860 as Lake Park and renamed in 1865 for Abraham Lincoln, it grew over former cemetery land whose graves were imperfectly relocated, leaving reminders such as the Couch mausoleum and occasionally uncovered remains. The park also carries the memory of Confederate prisoners once buried nearby. Over time it expanded into a broad landscape of beaches, harbors, paths, recreation grounds, museums, gardens, and the free Lincoln Park Zoo, while also serving as a setting for protest and civic conflict.

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Chicago, Illinois · USA