Monday, July 13, 2009

Chicago North / Lincoln Prk / Richard J. Oglesby - by Leonard Crunelle

Richard J. Oglesby Monument




Richard J. Oglesby Monument - by Leonard Crunelle

Installed: 1919

Location: Lincoln Park, 
west of Cannon Drive and east of the north end of North Pond
Located on Mount Prospect, 
a manmade hill just east of Lincoln Park's North Pond.


The sculpture honors Civil War hero and 
the fourteenth Governor of Illinois Richard J. Oglesby.

Richard Oglesby, seen here with hat in hand and coat over his arm.






Richard j. Oglesby


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