Burnham Park

Burnham Park is a public park in Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The park, which lines along six miles (9.66 km) of Lake Michigan shoreline, connects Grant Park at 14th st. to Jackson Park at 56th St. The 598 acres (2.42 km) of parkland is owned and managed by Chicago Park District. It was named for urban planner and architect Daniel Burnham in 1927. Burnham was one of the designers of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The Park is an outgrowth of the 1909 Plan for Chicago developed by the park's namesake Daniel Burnham and often called simply "The Burnham Plan". Land for the park has been acquired by the city's park district by a variety of means such as bequest, landfill, and barter. Now, the park hosts some of...