Herald Staff Report Ald. Sophia King (4th), the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, IBEW 134 and the Centers for New Horizons will host a 4th Ward Spring Job Fair, May 30, from 10 a.m.—2 p.m. The fair will feature over 30 companies and agencies that are interested in hiring qualified candidates. According to the alderman’s office, […]
By JOSEPH PHILLIPS Staff Writer The Chicago Park District in collaboration with Lincoln Park Zoo will host “Family Nature Play Days” at Cornell Park, 5473 S. Cornell Ave., on May 19 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Hyde Park. During the event, children will be able to play with natural items such as stumps […]
By GABRIELLA CRUZ-MARTÍNEZ Herald Intern The Hyde Park Youth Symphony will be closing their season with a Spring Concert on May 24 and is inviting the Hyde Park community to come experience the event. The family friendly concert will be held in the auditorium of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer After a seven-hour marathon meeting defined by passionate statements on either side of the debate, the Chicago Plan Commission approved the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park with no dissent, only a handful of abstentions. Groups had protested outside of City Hall before the event, and representatives of the Community […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer The Chicago Department of Water Management (DWM) is responsible for the ongoing work on 53rd Street, currently stripped of its pavement, through Downtown Hyde Park “We are repaving 53rd Street, and we are repaving from Woodlawn to Dorchester Avenue,” said Gary Litherland, the DWM Director of Public Affairs. He said […]
By JOSEPH PHILLIPS Staff Writer Black Owned Chicago will host “Black Owned Chicago Trolley Tours”, highlighting Black monuments and Black-owned businesses in Hyde Park and other South Side neighborhoods, every Tuesday from noon to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.-5 p.m. during the month of June. “After two years of exposing the greatness of Black entrepreneurship […]
Herald Staff Report Ald. Sophia King (4th) will host a community meeting to discuss the possibility of the installation of bike lanes on Drexel Boulevard between 51st Street and 39th Street this Thursday evening at 6 p.m. According to the alderman’s office, the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) has been studying the feasibility of the […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer Fifth Ward Alderman Leslie Hairston has come out swinging against the nonprofit Protect our Parks’ attempt to block construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park. In an interview with the Herald, Hairston answered why she thought the plaintiffs decided to file a lawsuit with one word: “Entitlement.” “It’s […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer In the 59th annual year, the Hyde Park Garden fair will return to the south courtyard of the Hyde Park Shopping Center this weekend. Patrons can buy herbs, houseplants, shrubs and trees, hand-selected, bought wholesale from nurseries around Chicagoland and sold without taxes at the not-for-profit event organized by a […]
By AARON GETTINGER Staff Writer A Chicago Group with a history of preventing a transfer of public parkland to private use has gone to federal court to oppose the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Jackson Park. Protect Our Parks, Inc. (POP), which 11 years ago worked to stop an agreement between the Park District and […]