Chi Che Wang Playlot Park is located in the Lakeview community on Diversey Parkway, approximately 2½ blocks east of Damen Avenue. The park has a new ADA soft-surface playground.
In 2000, the Chicago Plan Commission approved the creation of a residential planned development in the Paulina Ave. Corridor, an area that had previously been a manufacturing district.
Two years later, the Chicago Park District began acquiring a 1.72 acre site in the development to create a park for the new community. By 2006, laborers “cleaned and greened” the site which included removing industrial debris, planting lawn and trees and fencing the new park.
In 2004, the Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners named the new park in honor of Chi Che Wang (1894 – 1979), an important scientist and teacher who participated in many civic efforts in Chicago.
Editor's Note: This information was provided by the Chicago Parks District.