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Curious City

How Did Indian Boundary Park Get Its Name?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8642 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Indian Boundary Park on the city’s far north side is a symbol of Chicago’s complicated history with Indigenous people. We’ll explore that history, and current efforts to correct past wrongs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm at the corner of Lenton Campbell on the city's north side.

0:07.0

In front of me is a large field house.

0:10.0

This is Indian Boundary Park.

0:12.0

It's kind of an urban oasis, surrounded by European-inspired apartment complexes.

0:17.0

Everyone I bump into at the park says they love it here, including a woman named Pink.

0:22.6

It's just very peaceful, the scenery, it's a big park, very spacious, safe, you know.

0:31.6

Pink comes to the park to walk her Yorkie, Sasha.

0:34.6

Other people are relaxing along the pond adorned with milkweed pods going to

0:39.5

seed. On the other side, kids are running around the large wooden playground.

0:47.7

Curious city listener, Amy Lurio, says she made good childhood memories here. She grew up on the

0:53.6

south side of Evanston

0:54.7

and would come here with her dad and siblings.

0:57.5

For a kid, it's like an amazing playground.

1:00.7

I do have some clear memories

1:02.6

about crawling up in those little wooden spires

1:06.1

and imagining how high I was.

1:09.6

And going back there every now and again, even as an adult.

1:13.6

And it just brings up all these childhood memories.

1:17.6

While Amy thinks back fondly about the park, as an adult, she started to wonder about the name.

1:23.6

Why is it called Indian Boundary Park?

1:25.6

I'm not sure who told me once upon time that, yeah, Indian Boundary was named because it was the boundary where the Native Americans couldn't cross.

1:37.4

That's all I heard about it.

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