The statue was moved to Lincoln Park after being displayed in the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893.

The inscription on the statue reads: ‘William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man — How Noble in reason — How excellent in faculty’

‘The bequest of Samuel Johnson.’

‘William Shakespeare Monument Adopted and endowed by the Edelstein & Pritzker Foundations Under the auspices of Friends of Lincoln Park & The Chicago Park District Oct ’89.’

‘He was not of an age but for all time’

‘Myriad-minded Shakespeare MDLXIV – MDCXVI’

‘Wm Ordway Partridge 1893’

Conceived by Samuel Johnson, and commissioned by the Edelstein and Pritzker Foundations.

Statue