Personal Trainers in Jefferson Park and Gladstone Park

The Encyclopedia of Chicago traces this community to a village platted near Milwaukee Avenue and Higgins Road in 1855. In 1970 the CTA opened a terminal here linking buses, a commuter rail station and the L, and the Kennedy Expressway, finished in 1959, still cuts diagonally through the area. Today Metra's Union Pacific Northwest line and the Blue Line meet at the Jefferson Park station, ten CTA bus routes connect there, and the Blue Line runs 24 hours. Gladstone Park has its own Metra stop on Austin Avenue.

Housing here is a mix. The Encyclopedia lists Victorian graystones, A-frames and bungalows among the predominant styles, and CMAP's snapshot shows about 47 percent of housing units are single-family detached, with roughly 35 percent in two- to four-unit buildings. Whether you live in a bungalow with a basement or a second-floor flat, your trainer brings the equipment the program needs. Every trainer is required to hold a Bachelor's degree plus a nationally accredited certification, and every session is insured.

Jefferson Memorial Park, at Long and Higgins, has about 8 acres of ball fields, a soccer field, tennis and pickleball courts and an outdoor pool, which is plenty of ground for sprints, ladder drills and circuits. For a change of scenery, Indian Road Woods on Central Avenue is a grove of old bur oaks on a bluff above the river, where wild hyacinth blooms in spring. Farther south on Long Avenue, the 38 acres of Portage Park add tennis courts and more open space.