South Park

CTL-PL-0205 · Place

STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

Combined Graph record U-02995 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0205. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Place: a historic locality named South Park in what is now Chicago, 'located in the vicinity generally of the present Jackson Park' — Goodspeed's History of Cook County, Illinois (Goodspeed Historical Association, c.1909; tier 3 published history), fetched in full Charles A. Norton located there about 1863 — matching the stored name-origin figure and date Name sequence (partial): 'After a few other families had arrived the place began to be called Woodville, but with the consent of Mr. Norton the name was finally changed to South Park' — establishing the Woodville → South Park sequence and Norton's role in the renaming The first station was in an old log building; the South Park hotel was built about 1874 by a Mr. Hoyt and burned in 1883 (per the same source)

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• City: Chicago

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• Chicago — located in
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Sources

• https://ldsgenealogy.com/IL/books/History-of-Cook-County-Illinois-being-a-general-survey-of-Cook-County-history-including-a-condensed-history-of-Chicago-from-the-earliest-settlement-to-the-present-time-volume-II-part-29.htm (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Place: a historic locality named South Park in what is now Chicago, 'located in the vicinity generally of the present Jackson Park' — Goodspeed's History of Cook County, Illinois (Goodspeed Historical Association, c.1909; tier 3 published history), fetched in full Charles A. Norton located there about 1863 — matching the stored name-origin figure and date Name sequence (partial): 'After a few other families had arrived the place began to be called Woodville, but with the consent of Mr. Norton the name was finally changed to South Park' — establishing the Woodville → South Park sequence and Norton's role in the renaming The first station was in an old log building; the South Park hotel was built about 1874 by a Mr. Hoyt and burned in 1883 (per the same source)

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