There Was a Dream That was Rome Traditional Geocache
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There Was a Dream That was Rome
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Enter the Coliseum and glory shall be yours!!! (if you find the cache that is). Because of the number of muggles, this cache has turned into a more challenging cache to find. Good luck :) Formerly known at "Park Number 507", the name was changed in 1999 to Coliseum Park, a much more exciting name I think. Its a small park, but it is nice for the young ones and you might even see some kids riding the train inside, something you might not typically envision when you think of Ancient Rome.
This park is named in honor of the Coliseum, a famous sports area and hall that opened in 1900 on part of this S. Wabash Ave. site. About a decade earlier, candy manufacturer and collector Charles F. Gunther had purchased a Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia, had it dismantled brick by brick, and reassembled the building to create a Civil War museum on this site. By the late 1890s, the museum was not doing very well, and a group of investors organized in oreder to find a way to re-use the building. An earlier Coliseum hall burned down in 1897, so the investors decided to convert the Civil War museum into a new hall for sports, political rallies, and other special events. President William McKinley dedicated the new Chicago Coliseum in August of 1900, and it soon hosted Wild West shows, political conventions, track and field and other sports events. The Coliseum remained in operation until 1982, and over the years, activities in the building hockey, basketball, roller skating, and rock concerts featuring popular groups such as the Grateful Dead and the Doors. The Chicago Park District acquired the .62-acre site in 2000, and hired the Site Design Group to create a plan for the new park. The landscape architecture firm took inspiration from the Coliseum building and created a cast-stone and metal entrance pavilion, playground, perennial garden, and passive lawn area for the new park.
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