Chopin Park is an park located at 3420 North Long in the
Portage Park community area of
North Side, Chicago
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The park stretches from Roscoe Street on the south to Cornelia Avenue to the north between Linder and Long avenues. The historic fieldhouse was designed by Albert A. Schwartz and contains an assembly hall with a stage and seven rooms, where many preschool and music classes take place. The park also offers a Park Kids after-school program that attracts local students.
Chopin Park is named after
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
's most famous
pianist
A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...
and
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Def ...
. Portage Park has the largest
Polish
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community in the
Chicago Metropolitan Area
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according to the
2000 census. The area is the center of one of Chicago's "
Polish Patches", ''Władysławowo'', and the park is right across the street from
St. Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church.
There are/were plans to erect a statue of Frédéric Chopin in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth in 2010. There are also plans to erect, along Chicago's lakefront, a full-scale replica of
Wacław Szymanowski
Wacław Szymanowski (23 August 185922 July 1930) was a Polish sculptor and painter. He is best known for his statue of composer Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw's Royal Baths Park (Łazienki Park).
Life
Szymanowski was born in Warsaw and was the s ...
's
Chopin Statue in
Warsaw
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's
Royal Baths Park.
Chopin Monument in Chicago
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See also
* Memorials to Frédéric Chopin
The following is a compilation of memorials to the composer Frédéric Chopin in the form of physical monuments and institutions and other entities named after him.
Chopin's Polish residences
Fryderyk Chopin's principal Polish residences survive ...
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References
External links
Chicagoparkdistrict.com: Chopin Park
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Parks in Chicago
North Side, Chicago
Polish-American culture in Chicago