Welcome to Rutherford Sayre Park!
Volunteers at Rutherford Sayre Park for Earth Day activities
Arts & Crafts!
Community garden at Rutherford Sayre Park.
Girls rule at the outdoor Weightlifting event at Rutherford Sayre Park.
Kids just love the playground at Rutherford Sayre Park!
Location:

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707

Supervisor: Kim Gapinski
Phone Numbers: Main (312) 746-5368

 

Hours

Park Hours
Day Time slot Comment
Sunday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Monday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Tuesday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Wednesday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Thursday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Friday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Saturday: 6:00 am-11:00 pm
Fieldhouse Hours
Day Time slot Comment
Sunday Closed
Monday 9:00 am-6:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am-8:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am-7:00 pm
Saturday 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Description

Rutherford Sayre Park is located in Chicago’s Montclare community (with Oak Park Avenue at the eastern edge of the park—and close to Chicago’s border with Elmwood Park: two blocks south of where Fullerton Avenue changes its name to Grand Avenue).

The park is 13.94 acres in size, and its fieldhouse contains a fitness center, gymnasium, and kitchen. Outside, the park offers two junior baseball fields, a softball field, a combination football-soccer field, two tennis courts, a new ADA soft-surface playground with spray pool, a nature area, plus passive recreation areas.

Rutherford Sayre Park offers a great variety of programming for all ages. Toddlers / preschoolers can enjoy Fun & Games, Moms Pops & Tots Interaction. Recreation includes the fitness center / weight training, baseball, basketball, dodgeball, flag football, floor hockey, golf, seasonal sports, soccer, team tumbling, volleyball, and (Olympic) weight lifting. In the summer, youth can attend the Park District’s popular six-week day camp.

On the cultural side, Rutherford Sayre Park offers several visual arts programs, including arts & crafts, drawing & (water color) painting, and ceramics. Nature programming involves a community garden. The teen art camp has created several colorful mosaics within the park's grounds.

History

Rutherford Sayre Park was created from three separate parks, lying adjacent to the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad tracks on the City's northwest side, had long been treated as one by area residents. All three were set aside as parkland just before World War I and came under the control of the Chicago Park District. The park properties were donated by two local families, the Sayres and Rutherfords, who had farmed and later subdivided the surrounding area. The western portions of the parkland had been part of the Sayre homestead, purchased by William E. Sayre in the early 1830s. Thomas A. Rutherford, the area's first postmaster, donated the eastern section, at the southwest corner of Belden and Oak Park Avenues.  In 1916, the Northwest Park District began to improve the area north of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul tracks, erecting a fieldhouse with an assembly hall and a gymnasium. Per a stipulation in the Rutherford deed, the fieldhouse originally included a bowling alley as well, an unusual feature for a Chicago park fieldhouse. In the 1920s, the Chicago Landscape Company designed a spray pool for the park.  The park became part of the Chicago Park District’s portfolio when the Northwest Park District and 21 other park districts were consolidated into the Chicago Park District in 1934.  The Chicago Park District acquired ownership of additional park land from City of Chicago in 1957 pursuant to the Chicago Park and City Exchange of Functions Act.  In mid-1999, the Chicago Park District combined these three of adjacent parks (Rutherford, Sayre, and Rutherford Sayre) to form Rutherford Sayre Park.

Advisory Council

Contact: Byron Watson,   President
Phone: (815) 353-0213
Meeting Details:

1st Wendesday of the month at 7:00pm

Parking/Directions

For directions using public transportation visit www.transitchicago.com.

Map & Facilities

Rutherford Sayre Park Natural Area

6871 W Belden Ave
Chicago, IL 60635
United States

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Assorted Mosaics | Artwork

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Baseball Field

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Clubroom

6871 West Belden Avenue
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Community Garden

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Fieldhouse

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Fitness Center

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Football/Soccer

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Gymnasium

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Playground

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
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Rutherford Sayre Roller Hockey Rink

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
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Rutherford Sayre Water Spray Feature

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Tennis Court

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Thomas A. Rutherford Portrait

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

Rutherford Sayre Nature Garden

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
United States

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Rutherford Sayre Water Spray Feature

6871 W. Belden Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707
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Assorted Mosaics
Assorted Mosaics | Artwork

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Rutherford Sayre Tennis Court

6871 W. Belden Ave.
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Rutherford Sayre Baseball Field

6871 W. Belden Ave.
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Thomas A. Rutherford Portrait
Thomas A. Rutherford Portrait

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Rutherford Sayre Clubroom

6871 West Belden Avenue
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Rutherford Sayre Nature Garden
Rutherford Sayre Nature Garden

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Chicago, IL 60707
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Rutherford Sayre Community Garden

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Rutherford Sayre Park Natural Area

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Rutherford Sayre Fieldhouse

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Rutherford Sayre Fitness Center
Rutherford Sayre Fitness Center

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Rutherford Sayre Football/Soccer

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Rutherford Sayre Gymnasium

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Rutherford Sayre Playground

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Rutherford Sayre Roller Hockey Rink

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