Sun Yat-Sen Park (Chicago, Illinois)
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Illinois /
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Chicago, Illinois /
West 24th Place, 251
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park, sculpture
This small narrow park runs about a half block between West 24th Place and Interstate Highway 55. It seems to have been built in 1976 as partial compensation for the loss of Hardin Park at 25th and Wentworth, destroyed when the Interstate was built.
Named for Sun Yat-Sen (Sun Zhongshan), the first president of China, the park features a bust of him on top of a stone pillar incised with a quotation from Confucius in Chinese. The back of the pillar bears an English translation by G. H. Wang, one of Chinatown's leaders in the 1940s through 1980s.
www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Sun-Yat-Sen-Playlot-P...
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Named for Sun Yat-Sen (Sun Zhongshan), the first president of China, the park features a bust of him on top of a stone pillar incised with a quotation from Confucius in Chinese. The back of the pillar bears an English translation by G. H. Wang, one of Chinatown's leaders in the 1940s through 1980s.
www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Sun-Yat-Sen-Playlot-P...
www.ccamuseum.org/index.php/en/research/places-map/171-...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°50'52"N 87°38'3"W
- Ping Tom Memorial Park 1.4 km
- Burnham Park 2.3 km
- Museum Campus 2.6 km
- Meigs Field (site) 2.7 km
- Northerly Island 2.8 km
- Grant Park 4.5 km
- Washington Park 5.3 km
- Douglas Park 6.1 km
- Midway Plaisance 7.1 km
- Jackson Park 7.2 km
- The Hub 0.5 km
- Chinatown 0.6 km
- Armour Square 0.8 km
- Near South Side 1.5 km
- Illinois Institute of Technology 1.6 km
- Pilsen 1.9 km
- Bridgeport 1.9 km
- Douglas 2.1 km
- Lower West Side 2.3 km
- Bronzeville 2.9 km