Alexander Hamilton Monument — Attraction in Lake View Township

The Chicago Park District returned the statue of the nation’s first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton to its pedestal in Lincoln Park on June 8, 2017. The statue underwent a restoration since its removal in September of 2015. The statue was restored to its original orientation facing north. The statue originally faced north, but was shifted to face south in 1993 to increase exposure to the sun.

The 13 foot tall, 3,000 pound statue was commissioned by Kate Sturges Buckingham around 1940. Buckingham was most notably known for donating the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain located in Grant Park. The statue was sculpted...

My first view of the statue was a photograph taken by my mother's father of the statue in 1952 after it was dedicated, with his figure reflected in the marble base of the statue done by my father's father JOHN ANGEL, the sculptor of the Alexander Hamilton statue for the monument. My family also visited the statue while we lived in Chicago soon after and at least once in recent years. It was not gilded with gold originally, so I was surprised to...

HAMILTON 🫡

I haven’t seen the movie but I really enjoyed my visit to statue. I wanted to thank him for his service! He’s all gold now. Weird way to have your remains displayed but I gotta give it to them, gold is cool! Gold is slick 😎I like it and loved looking at it. Next time, I hope they are less ladies (aka my Misses) next time, so there would be less talking. Eh, whatever.

Bye,...