The story
Built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration, Recreation Park has hosted Frontier Days every Fourth of July since 1976.
Everything that was here
- 1938–present · still open
Recreation ParkOther
A WPA park with the village's first pool.
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Connected places
Dinosaur Park
Rapid City, SD
Works Progress Administration
Queensbridge Houses
Long Island City, NY
Works Progress Administration
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House
Washington, DC
New Deal
Martin's Tavern
Washington, DC
New Deal
Sheridan (drowned townsite)
Sheridan, SD
New Deal
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Nearby history
Eleven-story apartment building
115 N Evergreen Ave · 414 m away
The tallest thing on the block replaced a movie palace.
North School
410 N Arlington Heights Rd · 429 m away
Built in 1938 as an elementary school.
Arlington Heights Village Hall
33 S Arlington Heights Rd · 448 m away
Clock tower, gabled roofs, 75,000 square feet.
CMX Arlington Heights
53 S Evergreen Ave · 517 m away
The last operator of the downtown multiplex.
Christian Volz Furniture Store and Funeral Parlor
17 E Campbell St · 537 m away
Furniture by day, funerals as needed, since 1870.
Arlington Heights Metra Station
45 W Northwest Hwy · 576 m away
Rebuilt in 2000, still the anchor of downtown.
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