DuSable Park, Chicago

DuSable Park is an urban park of 3.24 acres (13,100 m) 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 would be located directly east of North Lake Shore Drive and southwest of Navy Pier with Lake Michigan to its east. To its north would be the Ogden Slip and to its south would be the Chicago River. The cancelled Chicago Spire was under construction just west of DuSable Park. 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...