Cancer Survivors' Garden in Chicago

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  Aquascissors

  :: 25 November 2017 16:01:57

  A beautiful garden that was built for a good cause.

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  Eric Campos

  :: 27 August 2016 10:28:40

  It's beautiful and almost never busy. Find some peace in a busy city here.

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  Matt Uhlman

  :: 26 April 2016 12:23:23

  A lovely refuge on the other side of the funny bridge from Centennial park. It sits along side Lake Shore Drive so the serenity is lacking a bit, but overall, it's a very picturesque area to sit and relax for a while. Lovely flowers and some nice areas for pictures. Overall, a good place to enjoy a stroll on one of the 8 non-consecutive nice days a year in Chicago.

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  Christine Wren

  :: 12 October 2015 11:26:10

  Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks: My husband and I literally stumbled into the Chicago Cancer Survivors Park, ironically on a trip back to Chicago where we had lived for ten years. The second part to this discovery and probably the more poignant emotion is that he had just completed surgery for a rare and aggressive form of prostate cancer. The Cancer Survivors Parks are a daily reminder to all who pass by that the park and message are meant to support your subconscious mind that death and cancer are not synonymous. The message and the space are meant to give hope and courage. To those in the process of fighting the disease, it is meant to give directions and determination. To those who have not had cancer, it is meant to reduce fear. At last count there are now twenty-four Cancer Survivors Parks throughout the USA and Canada. The R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation (Richard Bloch, co-founder and honorary chairman of the board of H & R Block, Inc.) provided money for the construction of the Parks including funding perpetual maintenance. Each Park is individually designed to complement the surrounding area. The Chicago garden could use a little TLC. Each park has three elements ... the first element is to promote a positive mental attitude, the second is to show the cancer journey with a successful outcome, and the third "Road to Recovery" consists of seven plaques explaining what cancer is and basic actions to successfully overcome the disease. Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Parks have been completed in Bakersfield, CA; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Cleveland, OH; Columbia, SC; Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Jacksonville, FL; Kansas City, MO; Memphis, TN; Minneapolis, MN; Mississauga, Ontario, Canada; New Orleans, LA; Omaha, NE; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Mirage, CA; Sacramento, CA; San Diego, CA, Santa Rosa, CA; Tucson, AZ, and Tampa, FL.

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  Mitchell Mittelstedt

  :: 27 July 2013 15:17:21

  generally nice but it wasn't taken care of the best, some vandalized bench seats. right next to the highway. pedestals surrounding a wide lawn, each commemorating some person who got cancer. as i remember it at least.