Cantigny Park

For the town in France, see Cantigny, Somme. For the WWI battle that occurred there, see Battle of Cantigny.

Cantigny Park, with its Youth Links Golf Course in the bottom right.

Cantigny Park is a publicly-open 1,000-acre (4.0 km²) estate in Wheaton, a town located in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located on Winfield Road, just south of Illinois Route 38. There are acres of formal and informal gardens, picnic groves and hiking paths, and two museums.

The 35-room Robert R. McCormick Museum is the former residence of Joseph Medill, one of the first editors of the Chicago Tribune, and later the home of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, the Tribune's famous 20th century publisher. The residence, which was built in 1896-1897 and designed by architect Charles Allerton Coolidge, is open to the public for tours as an historic house museum, overseen by the Cantigny Foundation, a division of the Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation.

The First Division Museum, which was designed by architect Andrew Rebori, is devoted to the First Division of the United States Army—also known as the Big Red One—in which McCormick served as a colonel during World War I. He named his estate after Cantigny, a small village in France which was the scene of fighting during World War I which involved the First Division.

After McCormick's death, the Trustees of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, acting on McCormick's wishes, invited noted German-American landscape architect Franz Lipp to design a series of landscapes and idea gardens around the residence for the general public's enjoyment. Colonel McCormick, alongside his first wife Amy, is also buried on the grounds at Cantigny.

Lastly, there is also a public golf course at Cantigny Park. The 2007 United States Amateur Public Links Championship was held at the course, with Colt Knost joining golf legends such as Tommy Bolt and Ken Venturi as players who have won the tournament.

External links

• Cantigny Website
• First Division Museum at Cantigny