Meanings
- A number of places in the United States.
- A suburban village in Cook County, Illinois; a suburb of Chicago.
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said in a social media post that he is “aware of the troubling incident that has unfolded in Franklin Park.”
2025 September 12, Nicole Acevedo, “A person is killed and an ICE agent injured at an immigration arrest near Chicago”, in NBC News - A park in Boston, Massachusetts.
- A census-designated place in Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.
- A neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio; named after the park.
- A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; a suburb of Pittsburgh.
Origin
* (Boston): Named after American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. * (Illinois): Named after real estate broker Lesser Franklin.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Franklin Park. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Franklin%20Park
“Franklin Park.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Franklin%20Park. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Franklin Park,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Franklin%20Park.
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