Fuller Park, Chicago
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Fuller Park, located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas
Community areas of Chicago
Community areas in Chicago refers to the work of the Social Science Research Committee at University of Chicago which has unofficially divided the City of Chicago into 77 community areas. These areas are well-defined and static...

. It is named for Melville Weston Fuller, who was the Chief Justice of the United States
Chief Justice of the United States
The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...

 between 1888 and 1910.

The community of Fuller Park, is also home to Eden Place Nature Center, which is an environmental education center with the mission of educating communities of color on urban ecology. The nature center is located off of 43rd & Stewart, and is run by Fuller Park Community Development. The center is 3.5 acres and is located on what was once a brownfield.

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