Parks
Bensenville Junction
p54-4 and p54-1
Miniature
Golf and Locomotive Monument (adjacent to the first pool at Church Road and Main
Streets)
A History of the CN&W Railway System can be
found at Bensenville Library in Local History Folder L164.
Veterans Park Go
to first Pool page.
Lions Park
"The Bensenville Lions Club was initiated in 1938 and
chartered in 1939. One of the first projects undertaken by the
Bensenville Lions was the 1939 purchase of six 50 foot lots on
the corner of Wood and Addison Streets for $1000.00, with ten
members providing $100.00 each to cover costs, the club assuring
notes to those members."
" Lions took picks and shovels in hand, leveled the ground
and built a baseball diamond. In 1944 the land directly east,
the corner of Wood and Center Streets, was acquired by loan and
equipped as a children's playground, with swings, monkey bars,
merry-go-round, and high flyers. Later this site became the location
of the new Peace Church building."
"Senior Lions still smile when recalling an earlier attempt
to create a winter ice skating rink in the park-without much success,
as records show."
From "The Bensenville Lions Club: A Brief
History" by Charles "Chip" Ortega
Local History folder 176
In 1964, Lions Park was chosen as a possible site for the Public Library.
Sunrise Park
1975 newspaper clipping, "Sunrise Park Nears Completion", can be found
in Local History Photo Folder P313.
Sunset Park Southwest
corner of Grove and Barron
p313-2
1984
p313-1
1998
Varble Park Site of the Bensenville Public Library
