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WEB3 days ago · Hyde Park Jazz Festival cooks — in more ways than one. Saturday was an unusually overcast day in Chicago. Though fall is officially here, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival is typically the recipient of lingering summer vibrations. The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective, on a sunnier, warmer day, would have inspired a dancing marathon up and down the ...
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WEBUpdated Sep 26, 2024. 2. Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce members, Ald. Desmon Yancy (5th) and La Boulangerie owners cut the ribbon during the French bakery's grand opening at 1550 E. 55th St. on Thursday, September 19, 2024. Owners say the cafe is not quite open for business yet, however, pending city inspections. +2.
Rep. Jonathan Jackson talks legislative moves, migrant aid and …
WEBOct 26, 2023 · He said he also plans to introduce legislation to honor cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor with a Congressional Gold Medal. Taylor, who spent the last years of his life in Bronzeville, was the first Black cyclist to win a world championship in 1899, and spent most of his career traveling the world and breaking records.
Rep. Robin Kelly opens new office in Hyde Park
WEBFeb 6, 2024 · Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-2nd) has opened an office in East Hyde Park. Located on the ground floor of the Windermere House Apartments, 1642 E. 56th St., Kelly’s new Chicago district office replaces her former office in Pullman. Kelly said she moved locations in April in response to the most recent redistricting of …
The mayor of Hyde Park: A title with a rich past and uncertain …
WEBAug 19, 2021 · I was intrigued, and began to look through the archives for signs of such a person. Sculptor, cobbler, engineer The first notice in our archives for a “mayor of Hyde Park” appears in the May 6, 1927, edition of the Herald, in a write-up of an election held for leadership positions at the neighborhood YMCA.. The results were as follows: “Wilson Smith, a junior engineer with the sanitary ...
La Rabida CEO stepping down | Evening Digest | hpherald.com
WEBSep 11, 2023 · La Rabida CEO stepping down. Brenda Wolf, CEO and president of La Rabida Children’s Hospital, 6501 S. Promontory Dr., is retiring this December after a dozen years at the helm and 35 total there. During that time, she helped La Rabida become a patient-centered medical home in which one physician …
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WEB6 days ago · Updated Sep 16, 2024. 0. When Daniel Kumapayi, a Nigerian-American Hyde Parker and a music teacher, began playing the double bass for his middle school orchestra in Grand Rapids around 2010, he wasn’t sure he’d amount to much as a musician. A bundle of energy, Kumapayi struggled to sit still and pay attention in his….
Garden Fair, Used Book Sale lose shopping center space
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Two longtime neighborhood fundraisers are moving this fall after decades in the Hyde Park Shopping Center. The Hyde Park Garden Fair and Hyde Park Used Book Sale are relocating to Kimbark Plaza after effectively getting the boot from the shopping center’s owner to make room for outdoor dining for Mahari, a new fusion eatery coming to 1504 E. 55th St. this month.
What's Krackin' Southern Seafood set to open Aug. 8
WEBJul 26, 2021 · What's Krackin' Southern Seafood, 1310 E. 53rd St. Open noon to 8 p.m. every day except Mondays. The restaurant is also hiring for line cooks, dishwashers, cashiers and other jobs. To apply for open positions, email resume to [email protected]. Maurinise Lee has always wanted to open her own restaurant in Hyde Park.
Fall museums guide: art across Hyde Park
WEBAug 26, 2024 · The Smart Museum of Art. 5550 S. Greenwood Ave. Closed for reinstallation this summer, the Smart Museum of Art will reopen in time to celebrate its 50th anniversary on September 24 with two exhibitions. The first is “Give the Drummer Some!” a solo exhibition by South Side artist and designer Robert …