Roosevelt Park Traditional Geocache
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Neighborhood Park
History
Roosevelt Park lies in the South Loop's Dearborn Park housing development. Improvements began in 1980, and the 1.6-acre site soon had three tennis courts and a small lawn encircled by a running track.
Both the park and adjacent Roosevelt Road take their names from Theodore Roosevelt (1856-1919), 26th President of the United States. Roosevelt was a New York Republican who was elected Vice President in 1896. He rose to the nation's highest office in 1901, after an assassin killed President William McKinley. A lover of America's wilderness, Roosevelt is sometimes called the "Conservation President" because it was under his administration that the federal government first took a serious interest in protecting natural lands and established the U.S. Forest Service. Roosevelt was also an advocate of city park creation, and in 1907 pronounced Chicago's revolutionary system of south side neighborhood parks "one of the most notable civic achievements of any American city."
There are a series of these little parks owned by the Chicago Park District sprinkled through the south loop neighborhood. These little gems provide a nice little space to relax, hang out or throw a Frisbee. A block or so north of this park is another little park, Dearborn Park right behind Chicago landmark Dearborn Station. Of course if one desires a more full featured park experience, Grant Park is just a few blocks east.
There are only two legal ways into the park. The hint lists the coordinates of a car route and a pedestrian route.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ba gur tngr arne gur fbhgu jnyy.
Pne 41.87044,-87.629531
Crqrfgevna 41.868655,-87.628654