STREETERVILLE — Newly unveiled plans for the long-undeveloped DuSable Park call for a boardwalk, lush native greenery and a pavilion to help visitors learn about the park’s namesake and Chicago’s founder and first non-Indigenous Black settler.
The 3.5-acre park at 401 N. DuSable Lake Shore Drive is on a small peninsula east of Lake Shore Drive. It has been in the works since 1987, when former Mayor Harold Washington gave the land to the Park District to develop a park in honor of Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.
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