Richard Clark Park comprises nearly 19 acres of green space along the east bank of the Chicago River in the North Center neighborhood. The park’s soccer fields and bike trails sit on land once occupied by the fondly-remembered Riverview Amusement Park. Riverview, created in 1904 on the site of a former German hunting preserve, was for a time the world’s largest amusement park, with a massive roller coaster, a double ferris wheel, a tunnel of love, a water slide, a parachute drop, and carnival games of skill and chance, among many other things. After the amusement park’s demolition in 1967, the City of Chicago purchased more than three acres of the Riverview site, and the Chicago Park District transformed the site into parkland in 1979.