Ping Tom Memorial Park

This guide to Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chicago starts under the pavilion's curved green roof tiles, and the problem landscape architect Ernest Wong ran into trying to build a Suzhou-style pavilion for Chicago's Chinatown. It follows the site's earlier life as a Santa Fe Railway freight yard, and Chinatown businessman Ping Tom's push in 1989 to turn part of it into green space after the neighborhood lost parkland to the Dan Ryan Expressway in 1962. Stand under the eaves and look closely at the glaze on those tiles.