Excerpt from The Chicago Park District: History, Background, Organization Few people realize the amazing extent and variety of free facilities for indoor and outdoor recreation provided in the 134 parks throughout the Chicago Park District. The following table summarizes these and provides a statistical pic ture. Of'the highly developed park resources which serve the city's leisure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.