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Originally Posted by Crawford
NYC is 27% parkland; Chicago is 8% parkland.
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I think that 8% is only counting land maintained by the Chicago Park District, there are also several Cook County forest preserves, a state park, a large privately run golf course as well as lots of land in the Lake Calumet area that is not yet organized parkland but is essentially wilderness/wetlands. It wouldn't surprise me if Chicago's percentage of open land is actually similar to New York City.