Parks
The City of Evanston maintains 76 of its own parks spread over 273 acres. This parks layer also includes 10 Ridgeville Park District parks, 2 Lighthouse Park District Parks, 1 Cook County Forest Preserve (Perkins Woods) and the portion of the Canal Shores Golf Course within the City of Evanston as well as 2 parks just over the city"s western boundary which we jointly operate with the Village of Skokie.
- Records
- 93
- Formats
- 5
- Last updated
- Jul 3, 2025
Download & API
Parks (CSV)csv
Spreadsheet — attributes, with coordinates for point layers
Parks (GeoJSON)geojson
GeoJSON — for web maps and GIS tools
Parks (GeoParquet)geoparquet
Columnar — query with DuckDB / SQL
Parks (map tiles)pmtiles
Vector tiles — embed in a map
Live ArcGIS layer (source)arcgis
Rendered from PMTiles, queried in-browser from GeoParquet — no server. How this works
Schema
| Field | Type | Values |
|---|---|---|
Name PARK_NAME | string | |
Location LOCATION | string | |
Controlling entity CONTROLLING_ENTITY | string | 6 values: City of Evanston (77), Ridgeville Park District (10), Lighthouse Park District (2)… |
Children's playground CHILD_PLAYGROUND | string | 2 values: Y (60), N (29) |
Baseball / softball fields BASEBALL_SOFTBALL | string | 5 values: N (76), 1 (9), 2 (2)… |
Basketball courts BASKETBALL_COURTS | string | 7 values: N (70), 1 (9), 1/2 (5)… |
Soccer / football fields SOCCER_FOOTBALL | string | 4 values: N (81), 1 (5), 2 (2)… |
Special amenities SPECIAL_AMENITIES | string | |
Tennis courts TENNIS_COURTS | string | 4 values: N (79), 2 (6), 4 (2)… |
Volleyball courts VOLLEYBALL_COURTS | string | 2 values: N (88), 6 (1) |
Common name commonname | string | |
Official name officialname | string | |
| ParkType | string | 4 values: Neighborhood (52), Community (20), Tot Lot (8)… |
Skate park SkatePark | string |