| Edison Park (formerly
Canfield) is one of 77 well-defined Chicago, IL community
areas. It is a residential neighborhood in northwest
Chicago, USA, named after Thomas Alva Edison. According
to the 2000 Census, its population is 11,259. Every
year there is a festival in uptown Edison Park called
"Edison Park Fest". It features food from
all around the northwest side of Chicago. Edison Park
Fest happens usually around mid-August. 2006's Edison
Park Fest dates were August 18, August 19, and August
20. Edison Park Fest also features local bands from
Chicago. Edison park has the one of the highest Irish
populations in the City of Chicago.[citation needed]
Brooks Park is among the four
parks created by the Edison Park District, one of 22
independent park boards consolidated into the Chicago
Park District in 1934. Established in 1913, the Edison
Park District was still developing parks in the early
1930s. During the preceding decade, the population of
the Edison Park neighborhood had increased from 950
to over 5,000 people, but the area's fine homes were
still interspersed with farmland. In 1931, the park
district purchased a 2.7-acre tract of open land in
the eastern portion of its territory. The site was known
as Brooks Park in honor of Edison Park District President
Oscar E. Brooks (1869--), a prominent local resident
and general contractor, who had served as village trustee
for five years before becoming a park board member in
1920.
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