Oz Park: Lincoln Park's Emerald City

Lyman Frank Baum moved to Chicago in 1891. Nine years later he published "The Wizard of Oz". It is said that the White City (the nickname given to the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, aka, the Chicago World's Fair) was the inspiration for Emerald City.
In 1976 the City of Chicago named a park in Lincoln Park (Lincoln Park was named after Abraham Lincoln) after him.
They didn't name it Baum Park because nobody who wrote "The Wizard of Oz", so they named it Oz Park.
It was pretty much just a park until 1995 when a statue of the Tin Man was installed. Over the next decade the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow, and Dorothy and Toto were added.
Oz Park is still just a park with tennis courts and baseball diamonds, but it now has creepy statues.