Dunbar Park (Chicago)
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Dunbar Park is a park located at 300 East 31st Street in the south side of Chicago
. The 20 acres (80,937.2 m²) site was acquired in 1962, and transformed into Dunbar Park between 1964 and 1966. It was named for poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. The 20 acres (80,937.2 m²) site was acquired in 1962, and transformed into Dunbar Park between 1964 and 1966. It was named for poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life....
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