130 years after it was created to attract development to a town that was having trouble holding on to its post office, Oak Lawn Lake’s main job is to offer respite from the hectic hubbub frantically flowing along the six lanes just to its north.
“People enjoy being here,” said Shari Wolfe, an office manager for the Oak Lawn Park District, which administers the lake and adjacent Lakeshore Park these days. “I enjoy going over there to see the ducks and turtles.”Ducks were floating in the shallow water and turtles were sunning themselves on the lake’s tiny island around lunchtime on a warm Friday as two woman sat on a park bench chatting. Another pedestrian took advantage of the scenery for a constitutional stroll.
Oak Lawn was even smaller than South Mount Forest when Olaf Larsen came to town in 1892 to help transform a swampy lowland into a showpiece subdivision.
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