HOW NORTH PARK VILLAGE AND PETERSON PARK WERE CREATED ON THE GROUNDS OF A FORMER SANITORIUM

While looking for some information on the area around Peterson Park in North Park, I came upon this 1989 story that does better than anything else I've found to explain the history of Peterson Park and adjacent North Park Village. The land for both is a former tuberculosis sanitorium that was closed in the mid-1970s and preserved by covenant to stave off feared commercial development.

Here's the Chicago Reader story from 1989