Presidents' Day 2012

Happy Presidents' Day everyone. Pictured on the right is one of the lesser-known statues of George Washington. You will find it in Chicago's Washington Park, specifically on the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and 51st Street. The George Washington Memorial is a replica of a French statue honoring our first president.

I snapped this photograph while on the South Side last summer while working on my Ronald Reagan Trail series. Although the Reagan apartment--which is in Hyde Park--isn't on the Trail, I felt compelled to add it to my series because of the possibility the building may be torn down by its owner--the University of Chicago.

Below you will find some other presidential posts worthy of a look on this day.

Related posts:

• Ronald Reagan Trail: Chicago and the likely demolition of the Reagan apartment
• Marathon Pundit's Ronald Reagan Trail
• Report from Tampico, Illinois on Reagan's 100th birthday
• Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Where Grant worked as a clerk
• Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Mrs. Butterworth
• Midwestern Presidential Pathway: Ulysses S. Grant Home
• Reagan centennial: Tampico's churches
• Reagan centennial: Ronald Reagan Park in Tampico, IL
• Thirty hours in Lincoln's Springfield, Illinois
• Abraham Lincoln birthplace site
• Abraham Lincoln birthplace site's log cabin
• "My earliest recollection is of the Knob Creek place"

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