Oz Park
[3] Lyman Frank Baum, a children's author and the creator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was a resident of Chicago’s Humboldt Park in the 1890s.
The Emerald Garden (located at the corner of Webster and Larrabee) features flowers through which guests may walk.
State Representative John Fritchey and Alderman Vi Daley gave the Oz Park Advisory Council funding for improvements to Dorothy's Playlot in 2006.
Approximately 30 years later the documents regarding the initial plans were found, and in the early 1990s Kearney was commissioned by the Oz Park Advisory council to create the first of the four statues.
[8] Installed in October 1995, the Tin Man sculpture stands at the northeast corner of the park near the intersection of Lincoln, Webster, and Larrabee.
Commissioned by the Oz Park Advisory Council, created by Sculptor John Kearney, and made possible by three very generous donors: Wonderful Wizards, Good Witch Glindas, Emerald City Citizens."
The plaque below the statue is almost identical to that of the Cowardly Lion[8] and reads "The Scarecrow became a citizen of Oz Park in June 2005.
Commissioned by the Oz Park Advisory Council, created by Sculptor John Kearney, and made possible by three very generous donors: Wonderful Wizards, Good Witch Glindas, Emerald City Citizens."
Commissioned by the Oz Park Advisory Council, created by Sculptor John Kearney, and made possible by three very generous donors: Wonderful Wizards, Good Witch Glindas, Emerald City Citizens."
