Robert A. Black Golf Course

This nine-hole Chicago Park District course occupies land that was originally home to the private Edgewater Golf Club, established in 1896 and relocated here in 1910. After the club's mid-century financial troubles and community opposition to development, the state purchased the land in 1970. Redeveloped into open parkland and a new nine-hole layout by architects Ken Killian and Dick Nugent, the course opened to the public in 1980. It is named for Robert Alfred Black, a prominent South Side physician and Chief Engineer of the Chicago Park District for over 30 years, and plays about 2,339 yards to a par of 33.