The park's recreational facilities include two gymnasiums, a fitness center, a swimming pool, as well as outdoor space for basketball, tennis, baseball, soccer and football.

[2] The park was named for John B. Sherman, Burnham's father-in-law and a founder of Chicago's Union Stock Yards.

[3] The park was designed specifically to enrich the immigrant, working class residents of the surrounding neighborhood.

[4] In 1912, eight students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago painted murals in the Sherman Park fieldhouse that came to be known as the American History Series.

These murals commemorate events such as the founding of Jamestown in 1607, the Marquette-Joliet Expedition of 1673, and George Rogers Clark's Illinois Campaign of 1778.