This photo shows part of the Osaka Japanese Garden located in Jackson Park on the south side of the city. To give you an idea where it is, if you follow the lagoon straight ahead, you would very quickly arrive on Lake Michigan. If you turned to the left, you would see the back side of the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, which has been featured in these pages before.
If you turned around and started walking west, in a few blocks you would come to the University of Chicago. Walk a few miles south of this point, and you would be in Indiana. If you walked 62 blocks north, you would be in downtown Chicago. OK, got it figured out now?
Jackson Park was the site of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a sort of world’s fair of that time. After the fair’s run was completed, the 600 acres was returned to parkland. Only two structures remain from the World's Columbian Exposition, one of which is the original Fine Arts Palace…now the Museum of Science and Industry.
The Japanese Garden sits in the exact same place as the original Japanese Garden built for the fair. It was destroyed by vandals during World War II and was rebuilt several years later. Like most Japanese gardens, it is a place of peace and contentment, which I tried to capture in this image. I hope I succeeded.
(To see a larger version of this photo, just click on the image)
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