Leone Park Beach Traditional Cache
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This is a smaller sized micro container. Please bring your own writing instrument with you. There is plenty of parking nearby.
Leone Beach is listed as Chicago’s largest beach (per Wikipedia) – wow, I didn’t know that!! Additionally, Leone Beach Park dates to 1919, when the City of Chicago's Bureau of Parks and Recreation acquired the park site from the Department of Water. The city had purchased the property and its pumping station from the Rogers Park Water Company in 1907. Shortly after obtaining the lakeshore property, the Bureau of Parks and Recreation remodeled the pumping station, built in 1900, for use as a fieldhouse. The park's Touhy Avenue beach included diving boards and rafts that drew neighborhood children in droves. By 1937, the park comprised 250 feet of beach frontage, including street-end beaches at Chase, Greenleaf, and Farwell Avenues.
In 1959, the Chicago Park District began leasing the park, then known as Rogers Park and Beach, from the city. In 1966, the park district renamed the site Leone Park after beloved park district employee Sam Leone (1900-1965). Leone joined the Bureau of Parks and Recreation as a lifeguard after serving in the Navy during World War I. Initially, he worked at the old Clarendon Park Beach, but was moved north to Rogers Park in 1927. When Leone became a park district employee in 1959, he was named supervisor of lifeguards for the entire north side. Leone was still living above the Rogers Park beach house and supervising lifeguards and safeguarding swimmers at the time of this death at age 65. The cache is located near the park building, which houses the Leone Park Beach Junior Guards.
Enjoy the nice area with lots of parking close to the cache.
Update (20 December 2010): Congratulations to Birdman270 for his FTF at 17:26 on the 20th!!
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