By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer Harper Theater will receive an award from Landmarks Illinois next week for restoring the historic movie house. The theater will receive the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards on Oct. 26, along with eight other award recipients. Landmark Illinois presents the awards to “individuals, organization and projects throughout the state […]
By Jeffrey Bishku-Aykul ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR Music Teachers of Hyde Park (MTHP) will kick off its 2013-2014 Artist Series today, at Blackstone Library, 4944 S. Lake Park Ave. This year’s program features seven concerts by nine music instructors performing on piano, clarinet, viola and flute. Performances will take place at 6:30 p.m. every third […]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that two University of Chicago faculty members along with a Yale University Faculty member won the Noble Prize in Economics. The University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen along with Yale’s Robert Shiller won the prize for developing new methods to study trends in asset […]
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer The Hyde Park Ramada has changed its name to Chicago Lakeshore Hotel after ending its contract with the hotel chain. Earl Adams, director of sales and marketing at the hotel, 4900 S. Lakeshore Dr., said that the opportunity arose to end its contract with the national hotel chain and become […]
The last in a series of lectures on home restoration, “This Old (Hyde Park) House,” will take place at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20, at Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn Ave. Bogdan Bosak, president of Jefferson Park-based Conrad Roofing, will present a talk entitled, “Historic, Waterproof, Affordable and Still Beautiful.” For more information, […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton will visit the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Pl., from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21. He will be promoting his latest book, entitled “The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to American Leadership.” Admission will be $5, and free for those who buy Sharpton’s book […]
By LINDSAY WELBERS Staff Writer The Leon Despres Lecture Series returns for its fourth season next week when Paul Durica and Bill Savage come to the Blackstone Library to discuss “Chicago By Day and Night.” The book is a recently re-edited version of a pamphlet that was distributed to tourists visiting Chicago for the 1893 […]
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer GenTech Digital Media & STEM Education Center has added a Hyde Park location for its Saturday Program. The program prepares students for high-demand fields in digital media and science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM). The program, which previously held classes at the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University […]
By JEFFREY BISHKU-AYKUL Assistant to the Editor Members of First Unitarian Church of Chicago, 5650 S. Woodlawn Ave., will be traveling to Springfield next Tuesday, Oct. 22, to show their support for gay marriage. The congregants will join others at the March on Springfield for Marriage Equality, scheduled to take place on the same day […]
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS Staff Writer The DuSable Museum of African American History will host a screening and discussion of the documentary “’63 Boycott,” Tuesday, Oct. 22, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the boycott against Chicago Public Schools (CPS) overcrowding. Gordon Quinn, director of the project, is still searching for past CPS students who […]