Bucktown has seven great parks:

• Holstein Park at 2200 N. Oakley
• Senior Citizens Park just north of there at 2238 N. Oakley
• Erhler Park on Cortland at Oakley and Wilmot at 2230 W. Cortland
• Churchill Field Park at 1825 N. Damen between Churchill and the Bloomingdale tracks
• Walsh Park at 1722 N. Ashland and on Marshfield between Bloomingdale and Wabansia
• Burr Park
• Park #529

Holstein Park Neighbors
If you'd like to be a part of the Holstein Park renovations, contact the Holstein Park Neighbors via email.

Bloomingdale Trail
The Bloomingdale Rail Trail is part of the Logan Square Open Space Plan. The draft of the plan is available at the City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development's website www.cityofchicago.org/dpd if you are interested. Contact the Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail at www.bloomingdaletrail.org for more information.

Bucktown Beautification Team
If you'd like to help make Bucktown a cleaner and more beautiful community to live in please contact us via email.

Bucktown Dog Club
If you're interested in securing more dog friendly areas in Bucktown and perhaps getting a real dog park in the neighborhood, join the club. Please contact us via email.

Friends of Walsh Park
This is a group of neighbors who are interested in obtaining new rubber playground surface, more shade trees, a small water park and a field house in Walsh Park. If this interests you, please contact us via email.

For more information on each of the parks and the activities offered go to www.ChicagoParkDistrict.com and search for the park by name or for an activity like the Dog Friendly Areas at Walsh Park and Churchill Field Park, or the Pool at Holstein Park, or the play areas at Walsh Park and Erhler Park, or the board game tables at Senior Citizen Park. There is so much to do... just get out and do it.

Each park has an Advisory Council that works with the community and the Park District to build more programs that meet the community needs. Get involved - contact Payton at paytonc@bucktown.org for the next meeting on your favorite park or to share your suggestions on what we can do in the parks or if you spy a spot that should be filled with green. Watch this space for more news on new parks in the neighborhood - we'd like to have at least six parks in Bucktown some time soon.