Park Board: Penny Park Should be Rehabbed, Not Replaced

Evanston’s Parks and Recreation Board are recommending Penny Park be rehabbed rather than replaced with a plastic playground, the Evanston Review reports.

Located at 1500 Lake Street since 1990, the park was planned to be demolished by the city to make room for a new park in 2013, but a citizen’s group created a website to save the park.

“Part of Penny Park’s charm is that it is constructed nearly entirely of wood, with very few design elements that are appropriate for only one form of play or one age range. At Penny Park, kids of all ages can freely wander and explore, and any wooden beam can be part of a climbing wall, any nook can be a secret room in a castle, and any platform can be whatever our children imagine it can be,” according to preservepennypark.com.

Read more via the Evanston Review.