DuSable Park

Chicago Journal Newspaper:

In the beginning, DuSable Park wasn't a park at all--not even in name. It was a dumping ground for Streeterville's deep-dug foundations, a nub of a lakefront peninsula where dirt piled up and weeds grew on top. Later it was mulled as a high-rise site, and later still as a parking lot. For six or seven decades--even after DuSable Park was dedicated by Harold Washington in 1987--radioactive thorium lay undetected in the ground there, the residue of an incandescent lamp factory gone since the 1930s. The pollution was only discovered in late 2000.


Mostly, though, DuSable Park has been a ragged and lonely wilderness at the mouth of the Chicago River just south of Navy Pier. But that's about to change.

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