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How to Get There

From Chicago, IL: Take Lake Shore Drive or North Clark Street toward Chicago's lakefront and continue to Lincoln Park, which stretches along Lake Michigan between Ohio Street Beach and Ardmore Avenue.

Overview

Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre park along Lake Michigan on Chicago's North Side, the city's largest and, with 20 million visitors a year, the second-most-visited city park in the country after Central Park. Named for Abraham Lincoln, it stretches seven miles along the lakefront with landscaped gardens, harbors, beaches, and nature areas.

Zoo and Conservatory

The park is home to the free, year-round Lincoln Park Zoo, home to nearly 1,250 animals, and the Lincoln Park Conservatory, a historic glasshouse complex built in stages from 1890 to 1895. Nearby, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Chicago History Museum, home to Abraham Lincoln's deathbed and other artifacts, round out the park's cultural institutions.

Public Art and Beaches

Public art throughout the park includes Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Standing Lincoln statue and tributes to figures such as Hans Christian Andersen and Shakespeare, while seven public beaches line its seven-mile shoreline along the Chicago Lakefront Trail.

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