Letters To The Editor

To the Editor: I am grateful to Herald reporter Aaron Gettinger for his pertinent questions for Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) regarding her odd announcement that an unnamed government entity is going to float a bond issue of unknown size for the purpose of improving South Shore. (See the Herald website, hpherald.com, for the story. Editor’s […]

To the Editor: I think this proposed design for the OPC looks more like an Epcot center than a presidential one. I cannot get over the amount of concrete – these buildings, plazas, a twenty-two-story tower. What is being suggested is a redesign of the park, and the idea of a museum campus would not […]

To the Editor: This was the beautiful Horticultural Building of the Columbian Exposition, one of many built for the Fair by the leading architects in 1891-1893 in Jackson Park. The Horticulture Building became a model for Lincoln Park Conservatory and the Garfield Park Conservatory which are both built in accessible and historic public parks. Its […]

To the Editor: We wish to comment on two points: one, something that was not included in the recent Hyde Park Herald; the second, something that was. First, the omission. We were surprised that the HPH declined to cover the news of the submission on Tuesday, Jan. 15, of three “friends of the courts” briefs […]

To the Editor: Plato had it right when he described our reality as not the ideal form. He was an ancient philosopher who was a student of Socrates. Plato articulated that what we conceive in our mind is the perfect structure or configuration and a copy of it exists here on earth in our reality […]

To the Editor: In his recent letter to the editor under “Aldermanic forums,” 5th Ward aldermanic candidate Gabriel Piemonte erroneously states that I have “ignored” aldermanic forums organized by civic groups.  One he mentions, the League of Women Voters, was still accepting confirmations and has received mine.  Others he noted have not, to my knowledge, […]

To the Editor: Although I no longer live in Hyde Park, I am a proud native, and I continue to enjoy the Hyde Park Herald. I was surprised, though, by the hectoring tone of the Dec. 12 “HP Chamber Speaks” column. The HPCC clearly does great work for the neighborhood and its businesses, but I […]

To the Editor: Herb Kaplan writes longingly of the “innocent days” when Hyde Park women “rushed to Jackson Park to ‘chain’ themselves to trees to protect the park.” What a short memory Mr. Kaplan has! These women sought to protect the park from Mayor Richard J. Daley’ s plot for a major extension of Cornell […]

To the Editor: When the Herald has previously published letters from Herb Caplan (Protect Our Parks) that have included unsubstantiated statements and false claims, we have chosen to ignore them, but his letter of Jan. 9, 2019 has gone too far. He writes, “In my enlightened days as a UChicago student and longtime resident of […]

To the Editor: Walking down Stony Island, from 56th Street, you can’t help but notice this nearly two-block-long, red brick building on the west side of Stony Island. As a kid, growing up in Hyde Park in the mid-‘50s, there had been a correspondence school located there; they had printing presses, offices full of workers […]