[1] To the west, it looks across Elm Street at the Washington Park neighborhood, and to the east it is bounded by the Cline Avenue expressway and industrial northern Gary beyond.

[1] As of the 2010 United States Census, Prairie Park had 812 residents, of whom 46.2% were African American and 48% were Hispanic.

[2] Prairie Park is known as one of East Chicago's more diverse and affluent neighborhoods.

Prairie Park is one of East Chicago's newest neighborhoods, having been built between the 1960s and 1990s.

Beginning in the 1960s, the neighborhood was built in three stages on land previously owned by Inland Steel.