Grant Park — Attraction in Utica

Grant Park, popularly referred to as "Chicago's front yard," is a 319-acre urban park in downtown Chicago that dates to the city's founding and contains some of the city's leading attractions. Named in 1901 to honor President Ulysses S. Grant and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, Grant Park is bordered on the north by Randolph Street, on the south by Roosevelt Road and McFetridge Drive, on the west by Michigan Avenue and on the east by Lake Michigan. Located within the city's central business district, the park's most notable features are Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, Maggie Daley Park, Petrillo Music Shell, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum Campus which includes the Field Museum, Adler Planetarium and Shedd Aquarium. It annually hosts some of Chicago's biggest festivals, including Taste of Chicago, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Grant Park Music Festival and Lollapalooza, a popular multi-day, multi-stage festival of rock concerts. If that isn't enough, the park also includes a section of the 18-mile Chicago Lakefront Trail, the Grant Park Skate Plaza for skateboarders and BMX bikers, two marinas that provide moorings for 1,000 boats, the 18,000-square-foot Grant Bark Park for dogs to get their exercise, 16 softball/baseball fields and 12 tennis courts. The park is within walking distance of Navy Pier, the most popular tourist attraction in Illinois, the Magnificent Mile, Chicago's premier shopping mecca, and Soldier Field, home of the...

The park is great as there are so many things to do. Tennis courts and basketball ball courts, walking path with two pavilions, one on each side of the park. Sand and net for volleyball and horseshoe pits. Great mature trees for shade and benches for seating around the play areas. Unfortunately, over the years it has been a bit neglected. The playground has a ton of picker bushes under and around the playscape, the wood structure could use some attention as well as the wood chips which are worn and missing from the swings and have a ton of weeds and dandelions throughout. Lots of kids, tweens and adults using everything the...

This park is amazing. One it's a relaxing atmosphere and it is a great place to relax. Next the playgrounds are wide and open but full of stuff to do and considering that there are 2 it more then enough. It also has a charm to it. There are lots of cool and interesting things all around the park. The only real downsides are that it's not the most dog friendly but just go down to pioneer Park if that's what you want and the restrooms aren't...