History
Famous people
Education
Physical space
Museums
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This was an internationally focused celebration that marked the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to America. It was held on Jackson Park in the Hyde Park neighborhood in 1893. The community experienced rapid growth as many moved to the area in order to help prepare for the fair.
What is the World’s Columbian Exposition?
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This notable Hyde Park resident was an American lawyer and politician. He became the first African American Mayor of Chicago serving from 1983 until his death in 1987. He lived in Hyde Park during the 1950s and civil right movements.
Who is Harold Washington?
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This institute of higher learning is located in Hyde Park and is home to over 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students. They live by a motto which reads “crescat scientia, vita excolatur” meaning “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.”
What is the University of Chicago?
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There are more than 80 of these, celebrating everything from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Mormonism.
What are religious centers?
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As it’s name reveals, this museum is devoted to the study of the near east. It has an extensive archaeological collection of objects from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Persia.
What is the Oriental Museum?
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Sponsored by the University of Chicago, the goal of this project was to create an "interracial community of high standards." As a result, Hyde Park's average income increased by 70 percent and the economic disparity between its white and black residents was minimized. To carry out the project, some old commercial buildings and houses were demolished and replaced by projects and small shopping malls. Hyde Park's continued upswing has created a huge demand for new development and rehabbed housing since the implementation of this project in the 1960’s.
What is Urban Renewal?
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This famous couple is rumored to have had their first date at a Baskin Robbins on Hyde Parks 53rd street.
Who are Michelle and Barack Obama?
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There a 17 of this type of school located throughout Hyde Park.
What are elementary schools? There are 4 high schools. The average student going through the Hyde Park school systems and beyond completes 12.8 years of education.
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Hyde Park is undoubtedly a place for academic and intellectual pursuits. This neighborhood is home to more of this kind of independently-run business than any other community of Chicago. The joke is that there are more of these than there are bars in the neighborhood.
What are bookstores?
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The Museum of Science and Industry has over 2,000 exhibits. It is in one of these that this German submarine shows the a reality of naval life through a large indoor arena with exhibits and newsreel footage that put this U-boat in historical context.
What is the U-505?
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Founded as a separate township from Chicago in the mid 19th century by Paul Cornell, the south side Hyde Park neighborhood has become one of the most recognizable communities in the city. For years the original Hyde Park Township was sold by Cornell as a prevalent place for wealthy Chicagoans to venture out to in order to get away from life in the city. In this year, four years before the World’s Fair, voters from Hyde Park supported annexation to the city of Chicago.
What is 1889?
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The University of Chicago, considered one of the top research universities in the country and affiliated with 85 Nobel Prize laureates, was founded thanks to the generous donation of this famous oil magnate.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
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According to Urban Mapping data from 2011, 43.1% of Hyde Park residents have attained at least this level of education.
What is a Master’s degree?
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Hyde Park is defined by four main parts of its built and natural environment. The northern boundary is disputed among some who argue that Hyde Park continues up to 47th street, but the commonly agreed-upon northern boundary is 51st Street, otherwise known as Hyde Park Boulevard. Hyde Park goes as far south as 60th Street or the Midway Plaisance. The neighborhood reaches to the beaches of Lake Michigan on the east and to Cottage Grove Avenue or this large park on the west.
What is Washington Park?
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This statue-standing at 17 feet high-is at the center of the “Egyptian Gallery” in a Hyde Park museum represents the young man who became an Egyptian pharaoh at the age of eight or nine. It is the largest Egyptian sculpture in the Western Hemisphere.
Who is Boy King Tutankhamen?
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Hyde Park is known for being a very integrated community. More specifically, it has been successful in its racial integration, having these three main ethnic groups in the neighborhood.
What are Blacks (African-Americans), Whites (Caucasians), and Asians?
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Led by artistic director Josephine Lee, this group was founded in 1956 in Hyde Park by the late Rev. Christopher Moore. The group meets at the Cultural Center downtown.
Who is the Chicago Children's Choir?
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Built on a rackets court under the abandoned west stands of the original Alonzo Stagg Field stadium at the University of Chicago, Chicago Pile-1 had this initiated within it on December 2, 1942.
What is the first artificial, self-sustaining, nuclear chain reaction?
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Besides their cheap prices this restaurant is well known after they gave away free breakfast in 2008 after Obama won the presidential election.
What is Valois?
400
Hyde Park is filled with many architectural gems, many of which are historic landmarks. This prairie-style home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908. Since then it has its destruction has been threatened several times in order to make room for other buildings. Each time, however, neighborhood organizers protested its demolition, in true community fashion. In 1971 Mayor Richard J. Daley declared this house a Chicago landmark and today it stands, currently undergoing restoration efforts by historic preservationists.
What is the Robie House?
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