Chicago Parks - Hurley Park Traditional Cache
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Chicago Parks - Hurley Park
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Hurley Park is in the heart of Chicago's Beverly neighborhood at the southwest corner of 100th Street and Longwood Drive. One of the most wooded and scenic spaces in Beverly-Morgan Park, Hurley Park boasts a peaceful bird and butterfly sanctuary among heritage oaks. The park is situated upon a natural, sloping site. SWAG.
Hurley Park, in central Beverly, hugs the graceful Blue Island Ridge. The Ridge is a topographical feature of the glacial period elevates many feet above the flat plain of the city and effectively explains and interprets glacial movement more than any other feature in the city. Along the Ridge is grand Longwood Drive, one of the Chicago area’s residential dream drives. Magnificent hilltop residences designed by celebrated architects makes Longwood Drive Beverly-Morgan Park’s premier and most desirable residential location.
Hurley Park was named in 1984 for pastor Rev. Timothy J. Hurley, who organized and led the new Catholic Parish of St. Barnabas. St. Barnabas, the first Irish-American Catholic church in Beverly-Morgan Park, selected a site at 100th Street and Longwood Drive in 1923. However, anti-Catholic prejudices led to condemnation of the property for a park the following year. Parish leaders, instead, selected a new site just down the street. The Ridge Park District took title to a 151x362 property from the Catholic Bishop of Chicago for $25,000 on March 12, 1924.
Additionally, through condemnation, the park district secured the remainder of the block up to Winchester Avenue. Soon, the district operated a small park and playground upon the 362x650 foot site. In 1928, the Ridge Park District hired the architectural firm of Hetherington & Son to design a wading pool, shelter house and comfort station for the park. The shelter house, now demolished, was a one-story building angled to face the intersection of 100th Street and Winchester Avenue. The one-story comfort station was once just west of the current playground. The playground was revamped in 2010, adding further enjoyment for neighborhood residents.
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