Holstein Park
The pool is deep blue, glistening, heated. But Holstein Park is distinctly nineteenth-century urban, complete with narrow streets reminiscent of old cities like Philadelphia or Baltimore and fitted along Oakley Avenue so close that a daredevil could almost dive into the pool from the roofs of the homes which line the street. Built in 1854 and redefined by urban designers and architects William Carbys Zimmermann and Jens Jensen, the pool’s brick fieldhouse, wrought-iron signage and fencing are early twentieth century. But the pool’s users, a collection of tattooed youth, starter families, seniors and children, are distinctly twentieth-century Bucktown. (David Witter)
2200 N. Oakley, 312.742.7554
Best of Chicago 2018
