HYDE PARK — Hyde Park has a new sledding hill on the Midway Plaisance.
Park volunteers on Tuesday said they’ve been pleasantly surprised to find kids are now using the easternmost hill in the park for sledding.
“Thank you all for your help in removing the mattresses, dead trees, garbage, invasives and burned out shacks from here,” said Louise McCurry, president of the Jackson Park Advisory Council and who has been helping organize cleanups on the Midway Plaisance.
She said those efforts to remove the remnants of makeshift shacks along the railroad tracks and piles of garbage has produced some happy kids.
Again on Wednesday, kids were out sledding on the hill on the east side of the Canadian National railroad tracks where the Midway Plaisance meets Jackson Park.
