Lake Ellyn Park - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Lake Ellyn Park - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Lake Ellyn Park is a public park located at 645 Lenox Road in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The park is centered around Lake Ellyn, an artificial lake created for the Hotel Glen Ellyn in 1889. The hotel burned down in 1906, and Glen Ellyn citizens proposed turning the land into a public park; however, as Glen Ellyn did not have a park district, it lacked the legal authority to buy the land. The city's residents voted to create a park district in 1919, and the new district bought the land and added park facilities in the early 1920s. Read more on Wikipedia
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