Clarendon Avenue Beach, 1916. The beach was created in response to a private beach just to its north at Wilson Avenue. Purchased in 1912, the beach was opened to the public in 1915. By 1929, some 2,000,000 people visited the two-block long beach.

Photographer: Special Park Commission
Source: Chicago Public Library (Municipal Reference Collection, Special Park Commission, 1916 Annual Report, p. 2)