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Playlots

Nixon Campus Park

Replacing outdated and damaged playground equipment with new, safe and interactive recreational environments was part of a collaborative effort by the Chicago Public Schools and the Public Building Commission.

In accordance with Mayor Richard M. Daley's wishes to create play settings that help children develop both physical and social skills, in 1999 the PBC began work on a four-year, $10.2 million plan to construct playlots at 87 schools.

The PBC began a special initiative to take advantage of volume pricing and discounts by purchasing playground equipment in bulk. This cost-saving process also ensured that equipment was available more quickly for each playground. The equipment is colorful and challenging.

Another valuable facet of the plan provided for possible business opportunities for minority contractors and community residents. The PBC, along with Target Group Inc. and Boyle and Associates, developed the Minority, Women and Small Business Capacity Partnership Program in order to create additional opportunities for emerging minority contractors and community residents. As a result, seven firms were pre-qualified and were the sole bidders for the entire playlot program.

PBC PLAYLOT PROJECTS

	Louis J. Agassiz School Playlot Past Project	2851 North Seminary Chicago, IL 60657 Community: Lake View Ward: 44
	Ira F. Aldridge School Playlot Past Project	630 East 131st Street Chicago, IL 60627 Community: Roseland Ward: 9
	George Armstrong School Playlot Past Project	2110 West Greenleaf Avenue Chicago, IL 60645 Community: West Ridge Ward: 50
	Louis Daniel Armstrong Playlot Past Project	5345 West Congress Chicago, IL 60644 Community: Austin Ward: 29
	Arthur Ashe School Playlot Past Project	8505 South Ingleside Avenue Chicago, IL 60619 Community: Chatham Ward: 8
	Avalon Park School Playlot Past Project	8045 South Kenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60619 Community: Avalon Park Ward: 8
	Alice L. Barnard School Playlot Past Project	10354 South Charles Street Chicago, IL 60643 Community: Beverly Ward: 19
	John Barry School Playlot Past Project	2828 North Kilbourn Avenue Chicago, IL 60641 Community: Hermosa Ward: 31
	Beasley Academic Magnet School Playlot Past Project	5255 South State Street Chicago, IL 60609 Community: Washington Park Ward: 3
	Hiram H. Belding School Playlot Past Project	4257 North Tripp Avenue Chicago, IL 60641 Community: Irving Park Ward: 38
	James G. Blaine School Playlot Past Project	1420 West Grace Street Chicago, IL 60613 Community: Lake View Ward: 44
	Joseph Brennemann School Playlot Past Project	4251 North Clarendon Avenue Chicago, IL 60618 Community: Uptown Ward: 46
	Orville T. Bright School Playlot Past Project	10740 South Calhoun Avenue Chicago, IL 60617 Community: South Deering Ward: 10
	Richard E. Byrd Academy Playlot Past Project	363 West Hill Street Chicago, IL 60610 Community: Near North Side Ward: 27
	Daniel R. Cameron School Playlot Past Project	1234 North Monticello Avenue Chicago, IL 60651 Community: Humboldt Park Ward: 31
	William W. Carter School Playlot Past Project	5740 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Community: Washington Park Ward: 20
	Eliza Chappell School Playlot Past Project	5145 North Leavitt Street Chicago, IL 60625 Community: Lincoln Square Ward: 47
	Frederic Chopin School Playlot Past Project	2450 West Rice Chicago, IL 60622 Community: West Town Ward: 1
	George Rogers Clark School Playlot Past Project	1045 South Monitor Avenue Chicago, IL 60644 Community: Austin Ward: 29
	Henry R. Clissold School Playlot Past Project	2350 West 110th Place Chicago, IL 60643 Community: Morgan Park Ward: 19
	John W. Cook School Playlot Past Project	8150 South Bishop Street Chicago, IL 60620 Community: Auburn Gresham Ward: 21
	George W. Curtis School Playlot Past Project	32 East 115th Street Chicago, IL 60628 Community: Roseland Ward: 9
	Davis Developmental Center Playlot Past Project	9101 South Jeffery Avenue Chicago, IL 60617 Community: Calumet Heights Ward: 8
	Charles Gates Dawes Playlot Past Project	3810 West 81st Place Chicago, IL 60652 Community: Ashburn Ward: 18
	William E. Dever School Playlot Past Project	3436 North Osceola Avenue Chicago, IL 60634 Community: Dunning Ward: 36
	Everett McKinley Dirksen School Playlot Past Project	8601 West Foster Avenue Chicago, IL 60656 Community: O'Hare Ward: 41
	Walt Disney Magnet School Playlot Past Project	4140 North Marine Drive Chicago, IL 60613 Community: Uptown Ward: 46
	George T. Donoghue School Playlot Past Project	707 East 37th Street Chicago, IL 60653 Community: Oakland Ward: 4
	Thomas Drummond School Playlot Past Project	1845 West Cortland Chicago, IL 60622 Community: Logan Square Ward: 32
	Eugene Field School Playlot Past Project	7019 North Ashland Chicago, IL 60626 Community: Rogers Park Ward: 49
	Foster Park School Playlot Past Project	8530 South Wood Street Chicago, IL 60620 Community: Auburn Gresham Ward: 18
	Matthew Gallistel Language Academy Playlot Past Project	10347 South Ewing Avenue Chicago, IL 60617 Community: East Side Ward: 10
	Marcus Moziah Garvey School Playlot Past Project	10309 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60643 Community: Washington Heights Ward: 34
	J. W. Von Goethe School Playlot Past Project	2236 North Rockwell Street Chicago, IL 60647 Community: Logan Square Ward: 26
	Nathan R. Goldblatt School Playlot Past Project	4257 West Adams Street Chicago, IL 60624 Community: West Garfield Park Ward: 28
	Greeley Regional Gifted Center Playlot Past Project	832 West Sheridan Road Chicago, IL 60613 Community: Lake View Ward: 46
	John C. Haines School Playlot Past Project	247 West 23rd Place Chicago, IL 60616 Community: Armour Square Ward: 25
	John H. Hamline School Playlot Past Project	4747 South Bishop Street Chicago, IL 60609 Community: New City Ward: 20
	Robert Healy School Playlot Past Project	3010 South Parnell Avenue Chicago, IL 60616 Community: Bridgeport Ward: 11
	William G. Hibbard School Playlot Past Project	3244 West Ainslie Street Chicago, IL 60625 Community: Albany Park Ward: 39
	William Augustus Hinton School Playlot Past Project	644 West 71st Street Chicago, IL 60621 Community: Englewood Ward: 6
	Oliver Wendell Holmes School Playlot Past Project	955 West Garfield Chicago, IL 60621 Community: Englewood Ward: 16
	Julia Ward Howe School Playlot Past Project	720 North Lorel Avenue Chicago, IL 60644 Community: Austin Ward: 37
	Mahalia Jackson School Playlot Past Project	917 West 88th Street Chicago, IL 60620 Community: Auburn Gresham Ward: 21
	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn School Playlot Past Project	3149 North Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL 60657 Community: North Center Ward: 32
	Thomas Jefferson School Playlot Past Project	1522 West Fillmore Chicago, IL 60607 Community: Near West Side Ward: 2
	Edward Jenner Academy of the Arts Playlot Past Project	1119 North Cleveland Avenue Chicago, IL 60610 Community: Near North Side Ward: 27
	Vernon Johns Middle Academy Playlot Past Project	6936 South Hermitage Avenue Chicago, IL 60636 Community: West Englewood Ward: 15
	Joseph Jungman School Playlot Past Project	1746 South Miller Street Chicago, IL 60608 Community: Lower West Side Ward: 25
	Joyce Kilmer School Playlot Past Project	6700 North Greenview Avenue Chicago, IL 60626 Community: Rogers Park Ward: 40
	Rudyard Kipling School Playlot Past Project	9351 South Lowe Avenue Chicago, IL 60620 Community: Washington Heights Ward: 21
	Mildred I. Lavizzo Elementary Playlot Past Project	138 West 109th Street Chicago, IL 60628 Community: Roseland Ward: 34
	Abraham Lincoln School Playlot Past Project	615 West Kemper Place Chicago, IL 60614 Community: Lincoln Park Ward: 43
	James Russell Lowell Playlot Past Project	3320 West Hirsch Street Chicago, IL 60651 Community: Humboldt Park Ward: 26
	James Madison School Playlot Past Project	7433 South Dorchester Avenue Chicago, IL 60619 Community: South Shore Ward: 5
	Thurgood Marshall Middle School Playlot Past Project	3900 North Lawndale Avenue Chicago, IL 60618 Community: Irving Park Ward: 39
	Rosewell B. Mason School Playlot Past Project	4217 West 18th Street Chicago, IL 60623 Community: North Lawndale Ward: 22
	Francis M. McKay School Playlot Past Project	6901 South Fairfield Avenue Chicago, IL 60629 Community: Chicago Lawn Ward: 18
	James B. McPherson School Playlot Past Project	4728 North Wolcott Avenue Chicago, IL 60640 Community: Lincoln Square Ward: 47
	Genevieve Melody Playlot Past Project	412 South Keeler Avenue Chicago, IL 60624 Community: West Garfield Park Ward: 24
	Ralph H. Metcalfe Academy Playlot Past Project	12339 South Normal Avenue Chicago, IL 60628 Community: West Pullman Ward: 34
	Garrett A. Morgan School Playlot Past Project	8407 South Kerfoot Avenue Chicago, IL 60620 Community: Auburn Gresham Ward: 21
	Morrill Math & Science Specialty Sc Playlot Past Project	6011 South Rockwell Street Chicago, IL 60629 Community: Chicago Lawn Ward: 15
	Ignace Paderewski School Playlot Past Project	2221 South Lawndale Avenue Chicago, IL 60623 Community: South Lawndale Ward: 22
	Francis Parkman School Playlot Past Project	245 West 51st Street Chicago, IL 60609 Community: Fuller Park Ward: 3
	Elizabeth Peabody School Playlot Past Project	1444 West Augusta Blvd. Chicago, IL 60622 Community: West Town Ward: 27
	Josiah L. Pickard School Playlot Past Project	2301 West 21st Place Chicago, IL 60608 Community: Lower West Side Ward: 25
	Portage Park School Playlot Past Project	5330 West Berteau Avenue Chicago, IL 60641 Community: Portage Park Ward: 38
	Ernst Prussing School Playlot Past Project	4650 North Menard Avenue Chicago, IL 60630 Community: Portage Park Ward: 45
	George M. Pullman School Playlot Past Project	11311 South Forrestville Avenue Chicago, IL 60628 Community: Pullman Ward: 9
	A. Philip Randolph Magnet School Playlot Past Project	7316 South Hoyne Avenue Chicago, IL 60636 Community: West Englewood Ward: 18
	Paul Revere School Playlot Past Project	1010 East 72nd Street Chicago, IL 60619 Community: Greater Grand Crossing Ward: 5
	Friedrick Von Schiller Middle Sch. Playlot Past Project	640 West Scott Street Chicago, IL 60610 Community: Near North Side Ward: 27
	Mark Sheridan Math/Science Academy Playlot Past Project	533 West 27th Street Chicago, IL 60616 Community: Bridgeport Ward: 11
	William T. Sherman School Playlot Past Project	1000 West 52nd Street Chicago, IL 60609 Community: New City Ward: 16
	Beluah Shoesmith School Playlot Past Project	1330 East 50th Street Chicago, IL 60615 Community: Kenwood Ward: 4
	Washington D. Smyser Playlot Past Project	4310 North Melvina Avenue Chicago, IL 60634 Community: Portage Park Ward: 38
	Songhai School Playlot Past Project	11725 South Perry Avenue Chicago, IL 60628 Community: West Pullman Ward: 34
	Herbert Spencer School Playlot Past Project	214 North Lavergne Avenue Chicago, IL 60644 Community: Austin Ward: 28
	Amos A. Stagg School Playlot Past Project	7424 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60621 Community: Englewood Ward: 17
	George W. Tilton School Playlot Past Project	223 North Keeler Avenue Chicago, IL 60624 Community: West Garfield Park Ward: 28
	Sojourner Truth School Playlot Past Project	1443 North Ogden Avenue Chicago, IL 60610 Community: Near North Side Ward: 27
	James Wadsworth CPC Playlot Past Project	6407 South Blackstone Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 Community: Woodlawn Ward: 20
	James Whistler School Playlot Past Project	11533 South Ada Street Chicago, IL 60643 Community: West Pullman Ward: 34
	John Greenleaf Whittier School Playlot Past Project	1900 West 23rd Street Chicago, IL 60608 Community: Lower West Side Ward: 25
	Elihu Yale School Playlot Past Project	7025 South Princeton Avenue Chicago, IL 60621 Community: Greater Grand Crossing Ward: 6
	Zapata Academy Playlot Past Project	2728 South Kostner Avenue Chicago, IL 60623 Community: South Lawndale Ward: 22