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A Park for all People.

Clarendon Park gets $14.5 million makeover. View the recorded meeting from March 25, 2021 above to learn about the plans for design. CPD is looking for feedback by April 14, 2021 - email any suggestions or questions to: clarendoncommunitycenter2021@gmail.com

Clarendon Park Advisory Council Welcomes You

The park advisory council works to bring together the community at our park. We support programming and events at Clarendon Park that enrich our community in Uptown. Please find information of some of our programs below. 

Clarendon Park In the Media

Plans for Community Center Chugging Along | November 2020 | Chicago Tribune
Uptown’s Clarendon Park Community Center is getting a $14.8M makeover
| September 30, 2019 | Curbed Chicago
​Garfield Clarendon Model Railroad Club | August 20, 2018 | ABC7
Visions Colliding on Future of Clarendon Park | October 9, 2018 | Inside Booster Article 
Residents want to be heard on plans to demolish Clarendon Park Community Center | November 11, 2018 | Chicago Sun Times
Model Railroad Club Chugs Along in Chicago for More Than 70 Years | December 10, 2018 | WTTW

Bee Grove Underway!

Clarendon Park has a new bee hive. Check out the hive website for more information.

Garfield-Clarendon  Model Railroad Club

The GCMRC's mission is to build and run a true to life model railroad that educates the public and members on the history and operations of railroads. They provide a setting suited for sharing ideas and techniques in this hobby that helps grow awareness and interested in the community for all things model railroading. Visit their website for more information! 

Clarendon Park Community Garden

The garden is community managed and practices only organic vegetable gardening methods. The goal here is to provide a place for Uptown, Chicago residents to grow nutritious food and help unite the community through gardening. For more information visit their website

Kuumba Lynx

For two decades, alongside Chicago artists, activists, educators, and youth communities, KL has honed an arts making practice that presents, preserves and promotes Hip Hop as a tool to reimagine and demonstrate a more just world. Visit their website for more information!​

Other Programming

Clarendon Park offers many other programs for youth and families. For example, we lauched the Clarendon little free library  in 2016 and we are one of two parks that host the International Traditional Karate Association. Come visit the park today to learn more. You can also find some information on the park district website. 
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. -Jane Jacobs 
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