Park News

Bulger Park Community Center classroom, 1601 Hirsch St., Melrose Park is being converted into a multi-use facility. Our Recreation Department staff has been offering various Family Arts & Crafts workshops and Pee Wee Playtime at this location since the Fall of...

Veterans Park District, the City of Northlake and District 87 recently celebrated the renovation of Posphalla Park Playground.

This past October, Veterans Park District Executive Director Bill Otte presented both the Grant Park Senior Club and the Bulger Park Senior Club …

On Friday November 4th, Veterans Park District held our Annual Veterans Day Observance Ceremony at Bulger Park.

Veterans Park District in partnership with Triton College, Jane Addams School Nature Club and Ms. Matticks’s Jane Addams kindergarten class, planted and maintained vegetable gardens at the Bataan Park Community Garden. The children planted a variety of seeds with the...

Our 2021-22 Preschool program celebrated graduates from Bulger Park Full & Half-Day Preschool in Melrose Park and Veterans Park Preschool A.M. & P.M. Half Day in Northlake on Wednesday, May 25th. 31 graduates from our 3 classrooms participated in the...

On July 6 2022, Village of Melrose Park Mayor Ronald M. Serpico, Veterans Park District Board of Commissioners, President Tom Olsen, Veterans Park District Executive Director Bill Otte, Veterans Park District Superintendent of Building and Grounds, Retired Veterans...

Special Grand Reopening Celebration at the All New Renovated Bataan Park!
Watch for details of date and time.

Exciting new and fun sports & recreation opportunities coming your way Spring and Summer 2022. VPD Board of Commissioners recently approved several new park projects throughout our district.  New Musco sport lighting on the southeast corner of Bulger Park field...

Veterans Park District recently was awarded the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD) Power Play Grant.