By SAMANTHA SMYLIE Staff writer Due to filming for NBC television’s “Chicago PD” in Hyde Park, there will be traffic delays and limited parking options along 54th and 53rd Streets on Thursday and Friday. For residents and visitors driving around Hyde Park from July 25 at 8 p.m. to July 26 at 10 p.m. these […]
By SAMANTHA SMYLIE Staff writer The Hyde Park Historical Society is set to honor Hyde Parker, activist and documentarian Nancy Campbell Hays by exhibiting her photographs in the fall and digitizing her photographs for the public to see what she captured during her time in Hyde Park over the years. Hays was born in 1923 […]
HERALD STAFF REPORT Ald. Sophia King (4th) said putting the proposed Chicago casino at the site of the former Michael Reese Hospital “is appalling and offensive given the deep and storied African American history in Bronzeville” after the city named it on a five-site shortlist. “The community is adamantly against a casino at the former […]
By MRINALINI PANDEY Herald intern The United States’ Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, on July 20, 1969. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing anniversary, 57th Street Books is holding an event for children featuring John Hare’s picture book “Field Trip to the Moon.” Educators from […]
RECOMMENDED Where: Goodman Theatre, Albert Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn St. When: through Aug. 18 Tickets: $25-$142 Phone: 312-443-3800 By ANNE SPISELMAN Theater Critic When I reviewed the Lyric Opera of Chicago production of “West Side Story” a couple of months ago, I couldn’t believe that Leonard Bernstein’s masterpiece lost the 1957 Tony Award for Best […]
To the Editor: The 4th on 53rd Independence Day parade was its usual rousing success. So many marching groups, so many youngsters with streamers on their bikes, trikes and scooters! My hat’s off to the Nichols Park Advisory Council, the 4th on 53rd Committee and all the other organizers. Congratulations on a job well done. […]
To the Editor: Protect Our Parks and others have criticized the Obama Presidential Center for planning to take public land in a Chicago park. (Actually, the City and the public would own the buildings and the OPC will lease the land.) Herbert Caplan, president of Protect Our Parks, has argued that putting the OPC in […]
To the Editor: As an attendee of The Silver Room Block Party and as a Hyde Park Resident, I would appreciate it if you would not put out the narrative that the event is unsafe. When the title of an article about “safety” is printed about an event run by a predominately African-American team, and […]
To the Editor: As MC of our neighborhood Fourth of July celebration, Wendy Williams surprised many of us by welcoming us “on behalf of the University of Chicago.” Ms. Williams set a lively tone for the event with her enthusiastic and personal recognition of paraders and bystanders. But let’s acknowledge that there were only two […]
HERALD STAFF REPORT South Siders say chronic diseases, a need for violence prevention and trauma resiliency and health inequities are their key health concerns, according to the University of Chicago Medical Center’s (UCMC) 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment, which is issued triennially. It also profiled specific neighborhoods’ medical and socio-economic demographics, including Hyde Park and […]