Evergreen Park (Queens)
Evergreen Park may refer to: * Evergreen Park, Illinois, a town located in Illinois, United States *Evergreen Park (Haikou) Evergreen Park () is a public park located in Longhua District, Haikou, Hainan Province, China. It is the largest park in the city. It is one of four major parks in Haikou and can be compared to Baishamen Park in that both have large, open, gra ...

Evergreen Park, Illinois
Evergreen Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. In 2020, the population was 19,943. History As early as 1828, a German farming family had settled in the area of what is now Evergreen Park. In the succeeding decades, other German immigrants arrived. Kedzie Avenue and 95th Street crisscrossed the farmland and provided access to markets. The first railroad (now the Grand Trunk Railroad) came through the area in 1873. In 1875, the community built its first school just west of 95th and Kedzie. The school and the stores that began to cluster around this intersection defined the community's main business area. Nearby, a real-estate developer, with a vision of the Arc de Triomphe area of Paris, laid out a star-shaped park with eight streets radiating from it. The evergreen trees planted in the park inspired the village's name. The location and layout of the park was intended to be the center of town, but 95th St and Kedzie Ave. later proved a more accurate midpoint. ...
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