Work Finally Begins On DuSable Park, Nearly 40 Years After Land Was Set Aside For It

DOWNTOWN — After decades of delay, the Chicago Park District has broken ground on a long-anticipated lakefront park honoring the city’s first permanent non- native settler, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. The 3.5-acre park at 401 N. DuSable Lake Shore Drive is on a small peninsula east of Lake Shore ...