Fuller Park
Description
Fuller Park is named for the small park within the neighborhood, which is in turn named for Melville Weston Fuller, a Chicago attorney who was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.
Fuller Park is one of Chicago's smallest community areas. It is a narrow two-mile strip of land, bounded by Pershing Road to the north; Garfield Boulevard to the south; the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Rock Island commuter line of Metra to the east; and the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad to the west. Fuller Park lies due south of Guaranteed Rate Field (formerly U.S. Cellular Field), where the Chicago White Sox play. The neighborhood is five miles south of The Loop.
Fuller Park has the highest concentration of churches per 100,000 residents of any Chicago community area. The community of Fuller Park is also home to Eden Place Nature Center, an environmental education and urban ecology center located on three acres in Fuller Park.