Palmer Square

I love running the track here with my dog on a sunny afternoon. It is just under half a mile for one lap so easy to keep track of the distance. There are always interesting things going on — dogs playing, people hula hooping or doing tai chi or yoga, and best of all the slackliners on Saturday afternoons.

Great spot– anytime of the year– Palmer Square!

Palmer Square is a nice park between Logan Square and Humboldt Park.
This area is similar to the two other places I listed because it has the main traffic way of Sacramento, that turns into Humboldt Boulevard, that runs through its center with lanes for local traffic on the east and west sides. The area between the major street and side street is complete with grass and many trees. It is a great area for a walk or even a run as they have a path complete for dog walkers or exercisers.
Marked by a beautiful church on the Northeast end this area is great for a nice stroll, a game of badminton or any other summer outdoor activity.

Palmer Square is one of the two parks we frequent in Logan Square. When my little guy was just starting to walk, we came here as our primary park. The kids equipment isn’t much, but it’s enough for a infant/​toddler with a set of slides, a bouncy platform, and other play equipment. Our son had his first slide rides here last summer among other kids his age.
Once the weather warms up, we’re here. Our son is almost two and loves this park. He rides the slides and runs up the hills. Since there are so many walkers and dogs, he interacts with a lot of people all the time. He’s great with neighborhood dogs and dog owners as they enjoy the park.
For us, this park is great. There’s not a lot of play equipment, but enough to burn off some energy before dinner or bedtime. It’s a great park for kids to bring toys to as well with open paths and pavement to play with chalk and bubbles on. Palmer Square’s one of our favorite toddler hangouts.

One of the lovely things about Chicago is the small city parks, and Palmer Square is one of the best. A great place to read a book in the summertime, and if you get bored you can walk the boulevard system to either Logan Square or Humboldt Park.
One fantastic thing about the park is the running path is warmer months often doubles quite nicely as a cross country ski path during blizzards. Just another thing that makes Chicago magic in the winter.

This park is right down the street from where we live. We are always walking around the park or through the park. We used to run and exercise in the park but that faded away. I wish they had more fests or get togethers in the park so we could enjoy it more but I do think it is in a perfect location. They have plenty of things for the kids to play on. There are always plenty of dogs in the park.

i love this little park, although i didn’t frequent it much before i started jogging and before bringing my nephew. it is very clean and quiet, and the palmer blvd homes surrounding it are gorgeous to top it off. nice for a (short) jog. i love the bunny park (the playground), and although catered for smaller children, i see many kids up to age 10+ playing and riding their bikes around. since when do we need an entire jungle gym to get out and active and have fun?

Palmer Square is a cute little sister next to the other pieces of the Boulevard system it connects. I say this, because Logan, Kedzie, or Humboldt Boulevards all seem so much more grown up and busy than Palmer does. It makes the park much more quieter than these areas, a perfect place to relax with a book without nearly as much traffic.
There’s a small running path that you can run a circle around. I would estimate it’s about a quarter mile. I don’t have kids, but I’d imagine it would be a great place to go with some small hills and playground toys, but nothing too massive. Overall, a cute quiet little park!

Palmer Park is my «Go To» park that I frequent on a daily basis. I go here for runs with my dog, casual walks with my wife or hang out here in the shade and catch up on my reading.
I definitely recommend that you check it out.

I live right across the street from this park. It’s a great place to take the kids or the dog (which I don’t have either but I do dog sit from time to time LOL!) or get in some exercise in. I really like it in the fall if I have a weekday off (not as many people/​dogs) I take a chair out and read. It’s like being in the city, without, you know being in the city. No frills really just a nice patch of grass with some running trails and a little play area for the toddlers. I like to think of it as a place to «get away» without ever leaving the neighborhood.

I live here. In a cardboard box.

Palmer Square is a few blocks away from where I live. I never really appreciated it until I got my dog Duncan. I walk/​run with him there every day and it’s really a great park! It was under «construction» for a while. When it was done, they added a very small playground and a new path. The playground is always frequented by kids and grassy areas with picnics and dogs playing.
The path is always under trees and nice and cool on those hot days. It’s quiet and peaceful. I love seeing people using the park area and families in the playground. I have met many nice dogs here and love that’s is dog friendly.
It’s a great place to walk/​run and enjoy the outdoors. Plus, it’s spitting distance from Miko’s. Walk there, grab your Italian ice and then walk around the park to walk off those extra calories.

Love the new winding running path; but it’s too narrow. Slow people in front of Naomi make her angry!
The bums are significantly less intimidating these days too.
It’s basically a serene, beautiful space now. Except when you can hear the screeching of other people’s children

I live a couple of blocks away and I walk my dog around Palmer Square every night. She loves it and I love it. It sucked when they had the fences up and were «working» on the space for… what, over a year? But they finally took that crap down. For a rather small park, the running trail and playground are pretty nice. Well, I’m usually walking around the perimeter so I can’t say I’ve hung out at the playground (also I don’t have a child and prefer to *not* look like a pedophile, baby-​snatcher or, later at night, a pothead teenager).
During the fall, the park is beautiful. It’s a really nice place to have a block and a half away, now that I’m all grown up and I do things like walk dogs and run.

Why won’t they take out the temporary fencing?
EDIT: The temporary fencing is gone and the park looks fantastic. This is a perfect well-​used neighborhood park.

this is probably the strangest chicago summer fest of them all!
costumes, custom bikes, clowns, strange music, and nothing but fat tire.
the circus (which i might as well be called) rolls into palmer park on buses running on garbage, bikes stacked to the powerlines, clowns playing tubas… you can’t miss it really.
its only a day, and then its gone, but its amazing all day long. maultiple stages and unique acts, it really can’t be missed. and they serve a selection of my favorite beer… so really i can’t wait!

This is a review for the new Palmer Square playground that was just opened today in Palmer Square, not the entire park itself, which is great.
After numerous phone calls and emails to the alderman from ourselves not to mention the countless other who live around the square and were looking forward to the playground finally opening… the fence came down.
2 years… how much money spent?
Please. What a disappointment. Not even a swing set or slide bigger for any kid over 2. I thought there might be a water fountain or something of the like.
Nothing.
Our son is 1 years old, so it’s nice for him now, but honestly, in a few months he will be bored as will we. I realize it wasn’t intended to be a full playground like Wicker Park or the one on Kimball or Fullerton and California. But seriously, what were we waiting for all this time.
I realize there are a lot of people opposed to the idea of a playground going into this park, and I understand, I thought it was a great space before. But honestly, in the years I’ve lived in this neighborhood, rarely have I seen many people making use of all of the space in the park, aside from homeless people sleeping on the benches and people running their dogs.
I guess it’s better than nothing, so it gets 2 stars. If it was still a construction site, then it would get 1.
2 YEARS?!

God please let them wrap up the ‘park improvement’ project in time for winter and Cross Country skiing season! Several people use it as such and there are not many options for this in the city…
It just would really stink that a whole summer and now maybe a whole winter of a fenced off/​segmented park.

A playground is being built in the middle of Palmer Square. The part of the square is currently fenced off until the unveiling.
So much for ‘unadulterated’.
My dog loves running around the park in the winter. And in the spring. And in the summer. And of course, in the fall.
But now that we live in Humboldt Park, we’ve got an even nicer place to run around. Hooray Jens Jensen.

So I was taking my morning walk around Logan Square, and stopped to reflect a moment on how just plain beautiful Palmer Square Park is. The Square itself is lined with the mansions and elegant apartment buildings that define the character of the boulevards, but its the Park that really makes this tiny pocket of Chicago special.
Palmer Square Park is two blocks of pure, old-​fashioned, undeveloped park. Almost every day, you can find people using the park in what I guess I would call an «organic» way: running laps around it, playing with their dogs, kids running around. And yes, you can find homeless people spending the night there as well. It is still Chicago, after all.
In spring, summer, and fall I like to pick up some tasties from Provenance and spend the afternoon here with a good book.
There are plans to develop the park with a playground, dog run and running trail. I HATE this idea. Why can’t people just let nature be nature, and land be land? Why do we have to designate areas for people to do what they are already doing in the park? That’s madness! Madness I say!