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Religious Center
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Police Station
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Cemetery
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Martin Luther King
Community Center
Tarkington Tower
40th Street
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Tennis Shelter
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Parking
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Picnic
Shelter
Multi-Age
Playground
40 North Tower
Resurfaced Tennis Courts
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Commercial
Strip
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Hill top
Basketball
Court
Open Grass
Field
Former
Baseball
Diamond
Double
8 Foods
Shade Tree Plantings
39th Street
Commercial
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TARKINGTON PARK | Existing Park Features
North United
Methodist Church
Meridian Street
Shade Tree Plantings
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Illinois Street
Kenwood Avenue
Tarkington Park
United
Way
Martin Luther King
Community Center
Tarkington Tower
40th Street
40 North Tower
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Meridian Street
Illinois Street
Kenwood Avenue
Tarkington Park
United
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Water Line
39th Street
Sanitary Man Hole
Sanitary Line
Commercial
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North United
Methodist Church
IPL Power or Light Pole
IPL Power Easement
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TARKINGTON PARK | Existing Utilities
Martin Luther King
Community Center
Tarkington Tower
40th Street
40 North Tower
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Meridian Street
Illinois Street
Kenwood Avenue
Tarkington Park
United
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LEGEND
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Red Oak
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Sweet Gum
Hackberry
Sugar Maple
White Pines
39th Street
White Spruce
Austrian Pine
Commercial
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North United
Methodist Church
Red Bud
Crabapple
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Community Center
Tarkington Tower
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TARKINGTON PARK | Existing Topography
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an effort to erase slums and blight from the nation’s cities and countryside;” and to concentrate on “solving the big decisions which face every
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