[3] Architecturally, it is flanked to the north by Regents Park and The Hampton House to the south.

Its southwest corner opposes two National Register of Historic Places Properties: Hotel Del Prado and East Park Towers.

The park has 8 tennis courts, an elaborate soft surface children's playground, a bathhouse and a boat pond.

However, the pond has no aquatic or plant life forms (excluding weeds protruding through former cracks in the seal) to support ducks.

A fountain and sculpture was placed in the center and dedicated in the spring of 2007 and the pool was refilled in late summer 2008.

In the 1980s,[4][5] a dozen or so South American monk parakeets were released into the park directly across the street from the Hampton House.

The birds have been a hotly contested issue pitting the U.S. Department of Agriculture against local politicians and the Harold Washington Memorial Parrot Defense Fund.