The notion that these moves would destroy Jackson Park is ludicrous. Even a respected Olmsted scholar whom I consulted said so. “There’s going to be a hell of a lot of investment in this part ...

But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation ...

Chicago’s Jackson Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux – the men behind New York’s Central Park. They teamed up with Daniel Burnham to transform the park into the so ...

And another decade passed. Take a walk though the 551-acre Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Jackson Park, especially this time of the year, and its beauty is absolutely apparent. And so is the city ...

Clarence Darrow Bridge, which overlooks the lagoon south of the Museum of Science and Industry, is one of the few remnants of the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s original vision for ...

Olmsted’s best ideas were often simple ones: the sunken crossroads of Central Park that help visitors forget the noisy city around them, the meandering trails at Niagara Falls that feature ...