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Chicago Park
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Coordinates: | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Nevada |
Elevation | 705 m (2,313 ft) |
Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC-8) |
• Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
ZIP code | 95712 |
Area code(s) | 530 |
Chicago Park (formerly: Storm's Station)[1] is an unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, along State Route 174 southeast of Grass Valley, California, and north of Colfax, California.
The town was settled by first-generation Italian-Americans who immigrated to the area from Chicago, Illinois.[2]
In 1915, J.F. Siems' Mountain Bartlett Pears from his Chicago Park orchard won first prize at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.[3][4]