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Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce |
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The Gladstone Park area is a strong and vibrant community and continues to be a highly desirable place to reside and to do commerce. Property values continue to climb as crime continues to stay low. The area continues to provide some of the best educational opportunities in the state. On January 1, 1991, the Gladstone Park Chamber of Commerce was founded. The chamber has worked diligently to improve the business community and the residential community. We have developed strong partnerships with the local schools and churches in addition to the Park district by holding community events such as Santa visits, Easter Bunny visits, Halloween Pictures, Fun Day, Home & Business Expo, family community picnics, quarterly community seminars, Kids Fest and Children’s coloring contests. We also pool our resources to help keep the business community strong by offering various promotions such as group advertising, Business Expos, and Business After-Hours. We put much effort into keeping vacancies to a minimum and we helped develop Gladstone Corners Shopping Center. We are an active organization that works well with both the business and residential community with our sole goal being that of keeping the community a good place to live and a good place to own a business.
Wikipedia
Gladstone Park is a neighborhood in the northern section of the Jefferson Park official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is centered at the large and confusing intersection of Northwest Highway and Central, Milwaukee, and Foster Avenues. The Kennedy Expressway runs nearby as well and has an entrance from Foster Avenue. The park for which the neighborhood is named is located a few blocks to the northwest between Northwest Highway and Milwaukee, on Menard Avenue. Gladstone Park has a stop along the Union Pacific/Northwest (UP-NW) commuter rail line provided by Metra and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad which runs through Chicago, Illinois, and its surrounding suburbs.
Chicago Park District Gladstone Park is one of six neighborhood parks created by the Jefferson Park District. Established in 1920, the Jefferson Park District was one of 22 park commissions consolidated into the Chicago Park District in 1934. In 1923, the Gladstone Park Community Club approached the Jefferson Park District about locating a park in the former Gladstone Park subdivision, named for British Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809-1898). The park district took action the following year, purchasing parkland and naming it after the community group. In 1930, the landscaped park gained a small fieldhouse designed by Clarence Hatzfeld, architect of many Chicago park buildings, including the nearby Jefferson Park fieldhouse.
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