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The half-acre Prairie District Pocket Park is one of the
multiple redevelopment projects for the new "McCormick
Square," located in Chicago between the South Loop,
Chinatown, Prairie District, and Bronzeville neighborhoods,
adjacent to the McCormick Place Convention Center and
Lake Michigan. The park's curvilinear form includes a
children's play space, a dog park and a connecting seating
and gathering plaza. Masonry piers with limestone capstones,
bases and ornamental metal panels provide the perimeter
fencing along Prairie Avenue (left).