By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Grab a sandwich and take next Friday’s lunch break at the Midway Skating Rink, or any number of Hyde Park places, to listen to live music. Make Music Chicago will spend its second year playing live music all day in Hyde Park. This is the celebration of live music’s third(…)
Hyde Parkers can enjoy the biggest full moon of the year with their neighbors this Sunday. A nature walk that will begin at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 23, at the east entrance of the Museum of Science and Industry, 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, will continue on to the east end of Promontory(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer The University of Chicago named Shaz Rasul its director of Community Programs. The position was recently created to support community-based initiatives. Rasul will help local non-profits by connecting them to U. of C. faculty, students and staff who can provide support or aid for their causes. His position will focus(…)
By JEFFREY BISHKU-AYKUL Assistant to the Editor The Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference (HP-K CC) is seeking to bring together neighbors using a community organizing instrument with a rich history in the neighborhood. The group will be hosting a workshop on block clubs Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. to noon at Nichols Park’s field(…)
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer A few years after The New Yorker launched, Chicago had its own answer to the high-brow city-centric magazine. The Chicagoan was published from 1926 to 1935 and took many editorial and design inspirations from its New York City counterpart. The magazine hoped to fight the stereotype of Chicago as a(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer The Visions Blu Institute is hosting a fundraiser Thursday at the University of Chicago Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts for its “Say Something” Youth Digital Media Summer Program. Each summer, Visions Blu, a Chicago-based digital media and news literacy organization, hosts a summer program to help(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer With only one week to figure out how to stretch smaller budgets at schools with increasing populations, public schools in Hyde Park are hosting meetings and inviting the community to discuss and review their preliminary budgets. Since Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) announcement of school closings in May, there seems(…)
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer Nell Kemp, 7th grade science teacher at Kenwood Academy High School’s Academic Center, is taking a trip to Alaska to study the influence of wolf spiders on the structure and function of food webs in the Arctic. From June 27 to Aug. 3, Kemp will work with a team(…)
