Park District of Oak Park Wants Your Input

Want to have your say on the future of one of Oak Park's most heavily traversed parks?

The is making a questionnaire available to the public that prioritizes

Some improvements are scheduled for the existing facilities, and park officials are urging residents to fill out a survey to offer feedback on a series of concepts offered up at a recent open-to-the-public meeting. Survey here.

The questionnaire will accept answers until May 27.

During a recent meeting, residents urged park officials to get creative and reconfigure some of the park's existing 3.3 acres of space into a multi-purpose field.

The park already contains a baseball field, a multi-purpose field and two age-appropriate playground areas. The skate park and three half-basketball courts were added in 2004. A 58,000-square-foot building houses a teen center, opened in 2008, a multi-purpose room for various park district programs and restrooms.

But officials are working with roughly $310,000 for more renovations, including the creation of a multi-purpose field. An artist's rendering of the concepts accompany this story.

The improvements would not be made until 2014.

A third public meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. June 8 at the Stevenson Center, 49 Lake Street.