# Parks and playgrounds with restrooms in Chicago

Parks, playgrounds and other places to go in Chicago with a restroom on site. 61 listed.

Last updated 2026-11-02, from the newest confirmation among these places.

## The list

1. [Maggie Daley Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/maggie-daley-park) (playground, Chicago). A three-acre play garden downtown with rope nets, a play ship and a seasonal splash pad, next to two rock-climbing walls and a looping ice-skating ribbon that turns into a scooter path in summer. Has: restrooms.
2. [Welles Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/welles-park) (playground, Chicago). A Lincoln Square neighborhood park with a playground and a water spray feature, though its fieldhouse and indoor pool were closed for maintenance for part of summer 2026. Has: restrooms.
3. [Ada Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/ada-park-chicago) (park, Chicago). A big structure for older kids with large slides and overhead challenges, on wood chips under tall shade trees, fenced from the street. Has: restrooms.
4. [Bessemer Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/bessemer-park) (playground, Chicago). An Olmsted-designed 1904 South Chicago park with a pool, a boxing gym and a playground with a water feature. Has: restrooms.
5. [River Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/river-park-albany-park) (playground, Chicago). A riverside Albany Park park with a free canoe and kayak launch, fishing, a soft-surface playground, and a summer water playground with sprays and a rain curtain. Has: restrooms.
6. [Avondale Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/avondale-park) (playground, Chicago). An Avondale park with a historic fieldhouse, an outdoor pool and a separate spray pool, a playground, and pickleball courts. Has: restrooms.
7. [Eckhart Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/eckhart-park) (playground, Chicago). A West Town park with a large fieldhouse that has an indoor pool and two gyms, plus a playground. Has: restrooms.
8. [Abbott Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/abbott-park) (playground, Chicago). A Roseland park with an indoor pool, a water-spray feature and a playground. Has: restrooms.
9. [Columbus Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/columbus-park-austin) (playground, Chicago). A 140-acre National Historic Landmark designed by Jens Jensen, with a fieldhouse, ballfields, a golf course and nature trails, big enough for an all-day outing. Has: restrooms.
10. [Eugene Field Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/eugene-field-park) (playground, Chicago). A riverside Albany Park green space with a two-structure playground and a summer spray feature, plus ball fields and tennis courts. Has: restrooms.
11. [Fernwood Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/fernwood-park) (playground, Chicago). A Roseland/Washington Heights-line park with an indoor pool, a water-spray feature and a playground. Has: restrooms.
12. [Independence Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/independence-park-irving-park) (playground, Chicago). An Irving Park playground with a water spray feature and an indoor pool inside the fieldhouse. Has: restrooms.
13. [Indian Boundary Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/indian-boundary-park) (playground, Chicago). A West Ridge park centered on a restored lagoon, with a wooden fortress playground, a children's spray pool and a Nature Play Center. Has: restrooms.
14. [James Mann Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/mann-park-hegewisch) (playground, Chicago). A Hegewisch park (originally Hegewisch Park, renamed 1922) with an indoor pool, an outdoor spray pool and a playground. Has: restrooms.
15. [Navy Pier](https://ourplayday.com/places/navy-pier) (theme park, Chicago). A free lakefront pier with a classic carousel and a 200-foot Ferris wheel as its paid rides, plus an entrance fountain that turns into a splash pad on warm days. Has: restrooms.
16. [Ping Tom Memorial Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/ping-tom-memorial-park) (playground, Chicago). A riverside park in Chinatown with a children's playground, a fieldhouse with an indoor pool, and paved paths along the Chicago River, with a pagoda-style pavilion overlooking the water. Has: restrooms.
17. [Portage Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/portage-park-playground) (playground, Chicago). The Northwest Side's largest park, with two big enclosed play structures, a rubberized surface, and a separate water play area in summer. Has: restrooms.
18. [Unity Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/unity-park-splash-pad) (playground, Chicago). A Logan Square splash pad with a nautical theme, reported under a community-voted renovation as of early 2026. Has: restrooms.
19. [William W. Powers State Recreation Area](https://ourplayday.com/places/william-w-powers-state-recreation-area) (playground, Chicago). An Illinois DNR site on Wolf Lake's Illinois shore with a small playground, picnic areas and fishing and boating access. Swimming is prohibited on this Illinois side; the well-known Wolf Lake splash pad is a separate facility across the state line in Hammond, Indiana. Has: restrooms.
20. [Brighton Park Community Campus](https://ourplayday.com/places/brighton-park-community-campus) (playground, Chicago). A new 17-acre Brighton Park campus with a playground, a spray feature, and a fieldhouse with restrooms, opened 2023. Has: restrooms.
21. [Fosco Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/fosco-park-water-playground) (playground, Chicago). A free outdoor water playground in Little Italy with sprayers and a tipping bucket, next to a standard playground and an indoor pool. Has: restrooms.
22. [Hamlin Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/hamlin-park-chicago) (playground, Chicago). An eight-acre North Center/Roscoe Village park with a playground, ball fields and a seasonal outdoor pool. Has: restrooms.
23. [Millennium Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/millennium-park-chicago) (park, Chicago). A free downtown park with Cloud Gate ("the Bean") and Crown Fountain, whose two towers spray water over a shallow plaza made for wading. Has: restrooms.
24. [North Avenue Beach](https://ourplayday.com/places/north-avenue-beach) (beach, Chicago). A free Lake Michigan beach in Lincoln Park with an ocean-liner-shaped beach house, restrooms and showers, and lifeguards in summer. Has: restrooms.
25. [Piotrowski Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/piotrowski-park) (playground, Chicago). A large Little Village park with a playground, a spray pool, and a fieldhouse with restrooms. Has: restrooms.
26. [Rainbow Beach Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/rainbow-beach-park) (playground, Chicago). A South Shore lakefront park with two ADA-accessible playgrounds, a swimming beach and a fitness center. Has: restrooms.
27. [West Chatham Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/west-chatham-park) (playground, Chicago). A 14-acre Chatham park with a fenced interactive spray playground alongside a regular playground, ballfields and basketball and tennis courts. Has: restrooms.
28. [West Chatham Water Playground](https://ourplayday.com/places/west-chatham-water-playground) (playground, Chicago). A seasonal spray pool and playground in West Chatham Park, with ball fields and courts alongside. Has: restrooms.
29. [Cragin Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/cragin-park-chicago) (playground, Chicago). A climbing-heavy structure with two slides, a few swings and a particularly nice water spray, with a fieldhouse nearby. Has: restrooms.
30. [Lincoln Park Zoo](https://ourplayday.com/places/lincoln-park-zoo) (park, Chicago). A free zoo where a toddler can pet a goat in the barn one minute and climb a play treehouse the next, with no ticket line to manage in between. Has: restrooms.
31. [McKinley Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/mckinley-park-playground-pool) (playground, Chicago). A big South Side park with a renovated playground, an outdoor pool with a kiddie area, and a fieldhouse with restrooms. Has: restrooms.
32. [Norwood Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/norwood-park-pool) (park, Chicago). Home to the Chicago Park District's only North Side outdoor pool with a water slide, a summer favorite for neighborhood kids. Has: restrooms.
33. [Ogden Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/ogden-park-englewood) (playground, Chicago). An Englewood park with three playgrounds, a carousel, an outdoor pool and a walking track, inside an early-1900s fieldhouse slated for a 2026-2028 rebuild. Has: restrooms.
34. [Ridge Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/ridge-park-chicago) (playground, Chicago). A Beverly/Morgan Park fieldhouse park with a playground, indoor pool and gym. Has: restrooms.
35. [William Rowan Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/rowan-park-east-side) (playground, Chicago). An East Side park with a gym, an ice rink, a large playground and a water feature. Has: restrooms.
36. [Austin Town Hall Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/austin-town-hall-park) (playground, Chicago). An Austin park with an indoor pool, a children's playground, a basketball court and a gym, in a 1929 NRHP-listed fieldhouse. Has: restrooms.
37. [Calumet Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/calumet-park-east-side) (playground, Chicago). An East Side park with a landmark 1924 fieldhouse, two gyms, a model-train exhibit, and a seasonal Lake Michigan beach outside. Has: restrooms.
38. [LaBagh Woods](https://ourplayday.com/places/labagh-woods) (playground, Chicago). A large, wooded Cook County forest preserve along the Chicago River's North Branch with a playground, picnic groves and fishing; restrooms open only Memorial Day through Labor Day. Has: restrooms.
39. [Mandrake Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/mandrake-park) (playground, Chicago). A Bronzeville park dedicated in 2001 with a rubberized-surface playground that has separate structures for toddlers and older kids. Has: restrooms.
40. [Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum](https://ourplayday.com/places/peggy-notebaert-nature-museum) (museum, Chicago). A nature museum with a walk-through butterfly haven of more than a thousand live butterflies and a separate nature-play space built for kids eight and under. Has: restrooms.
41. [360 CHICAGO](https://ourplayday.com/places/360-chicago) (attraction, Chicago). The observation deck on the 94th floor of the former John Hancock Center, now branded 360 Chicago, with a fully accessible entrance and family restrooms. Has: restrooms.
42. [Adler Planetarium](https://ourplayday.com/places/adler-planetarium) (science center, Chicago). A planetarium with a whole room, Planet Explorers, scaled down for toddlers, and a dome show upstairs that can hold a school-age kid's attention in the dark. Has: restrooms.
43. [American Girl Place](https://ourplayday.com/places/american-girl-place) (attraction, Chicago). A two-level doll store and cafe inside Water Tower Place where kids can shop, get a doll's hair styled, and eat lunch alongside their doll at a reserved table. Has: restrooms.
44. [Art Institute of Chicago](https://ourplayday.com/places/art-institute-of-chicago) (museum, Chicago). A major art museum where kids under 14 get in free, with a family learning center, tiny miniature rooms and stained glass kids recognize. Has: restrooms.
45. [Chicago Children's Museum](https://ourplayday.com/places/chicago-childrens-museum-navy-pier) (museum, Chicago). An indoor museum on the pier with a whole room set aside just for babies and toddlers. Has: restrooms.
46. [Chicago Riverwalk](https://ourplayday.com/places/chicago-riverwalk) (attraction, Chicago). A paved promenade along the Chicago River downtown, with the PlayCubes climbing structure for kids alongside boat tours and riverside dining. Has: restrooms.
47. [Field Museum](https://ourplayday.com/places/field-museum-chicago) (museum, Chicago). Kids stand nose to nose with SUE the T. rex, and a hands-on PlayLab built for small children means the day does not end at the first meltdown. Has: restrooms.
48. [Griffin Museum of Science and Industry](https://ourplayday.com/places/griffin-museum-of-science-and-industry) (science center, Chicago). A museum big enough to swallow a whole submarine, with a huge model railroad for train lovers and a water-and-air play zone for under-10s. Has: restrooms.
49. [Lincoln Park Conservatory](https://ourplayday.com/places/lincoln-park-conservatory) (garden, Chicago). A free indoor greenhouse next to Lincoln Park Zoo, with stroller-friendly paths through most rooms. Has: restrooms.
50. [Loyola Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/loyola-park-beach) (playground, Chicago). A big lakefront Rogers Park park with a real sand beach, a playground and a fieldhouse, good for a whole-day outing. Has: restrooms.
51. [North Park Village Nature Center](https://ourplayday.com/places/north-park-village-nature-center) (park, Chicago). A 58-acre natural area with a discovery room, a hands-on nature table and family programs, inside a 155-acre North Park campus. Has: restrooms.
52. [Shedd Aquarium](https://ourplayday.com/places/shedd-aquarium) (aquarium, Chicago). An aquarium built around a touch pool where small hands are actually welcome, plus a dolphin show big enough to hold a kid's attention for a whole hour. Has: restrooms.
53. [Wendella Tours & Cruises](https://ourplayday.com/places/wendella-boats) (attraction, Chicago). A Chicago River and lake architecture cruise departing at the Michigan Avenue Bridge, with stroller storage and restrooms on board, run by the same family company since 1935. Has: restrooms.
54. [Willis Tower Skydeck](https://ourplayday.com/places/willis-tower-skydeck) (attraction, Chicago). An observation deck atop Willis Tower with glass "Ledge" balconies that jut out over the street, fully stroller- and wheelchair-accessible with family restrooms on site. Has: restrooms.
55. [Wrigley Field](https://ourplayday.com/places/wrigley-field) (attraction, Chicago). Home of the Chicago Cubs since 1914, with games and, on non-game days from March, guided ballpark tours that include the dugout and field. Has: restrooms.
56. [Chicago History Museum](https://ourplayday.com/places/chicago-history-museum) (museum, Chicago). A Lincoln Park history museum next to the zoo and conservatory, with free admission for children under 12 and accessible restrooms. Has: restrooms.
57. [Garfield Park Conservatory](https://ourplayday.com/places/garfield-park-conservatory) (garden, Chicago). A historic glasshouse with a newly rebuilt children's garden (a net climber, a slide and a toddler area), plus outdoor nature play and a lily pond. Has: restrooms.
58. [Jack Cooper Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/jack-cooper-park-chicago) (playground, Chicago). Park with a playground, a community garden, a basketball court and tennis courts. Has: restrooms.
59. [Laurence Warren Park](https://ourplayday.com/places/laurence-warren-park-chicago) (park, Chicago). Park with a playground, a sled hill, a community garden, a basketball court and tennis courts. Has: restrooms.
60. [South Shore Cultural Center](https://ourplayday.com/places/south-shore-cultural-center) (garden, Chicago). A South Shore lakefront cultural center with a free Harvest Garden program for ages 6-12, afterschool and summer day camps, and beach access. Has: restrooms.
61. [Uppie Yuppy](https://ourplayday.com/places/uppie-yuppy) (indoor play space, Chicago). An indoor play center in Six Corners with inflatables, a mini movie theater, video games and a separate area for smaller kids, for ages roughly 1 to 12. Has: restrooms.

## Other lists for Chicago

- [High chairs](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-high-chairs) (61)
- [Changing tables](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-changing-tables) (23)
- [Kids' menu](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-kids-menu) (51)
- [Wheelchair accessible](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/wheelchair-accessible) (27)
- [Cribs](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-cribs) (21)
- [Pool](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-a-pool) (12)
- [Connecting rooms](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-connecting-rooms) (14)
- [Fridge in the room](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-a-fridge) (21)
- [Separate bedroom](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-a-separate-bedroom) (17)
- [Free](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/free-to-visit) (65)
- [Shade](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-shade) (15)
- [Water play](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/with-water-play) (239)
- [Order at the counter](https://ourplayday.com/united-states/illinois/chicago/order-at-the-counter) (44)

## About this list

Every place here is a listing on Play Day, and a place is listed only when something positive is known about it for kids. Each listing carries the kid facts (high chairs, changing tables, kids' menus, wheelchair access) A list needs at least three places to exist.

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