Named for the city's largest park, Lincoln Park has a little bit of something for everyone. The park itself boasts an excellent zoo, botanical conservatory, and four of the city's beaches. It is a community of paradoxes, change, and constant movement where turn of the century ivy covered brownstones fall under the shadow of luxury high rise apartments. Settled in the 1850's by German immigrants coming to this country seeking a better way of life, Lincoln Park is one of Chicago's oldest communities. 

Today, Lincoln Park is one of Chicago's most venerable and flashiest neighborhoods.  It is the home of the prestigious Francis W. Parker School, the Chicago Historical Society, The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, yet it teems with a multitude of trendy boutiques and restaurants.