Hyde Park Stories: The Rosalie Villas | Evening Digest | hpherald.com
Dec 10, 2024 · This story is the first in a two-part series about the evolution of Harper Avenue. Harper Avenue between 57th and 59th streets is best known now as the Halloween street, but it was once famous as the Rosalie Villas, a planned development created by Rosalie Buckingham (1860-1918). The Hyde Park ...
‘CollaBOOration’ prepares for another Hyde Park Halloween
Oct 11, 2024 · Currie leashed up his dog and walked him through the alley — "like Moses, the kids just dispersed," he recalled. Over the next decade, Hyde Park, which had long been a gathering place for South Side teens, saw Halloween weekend balloon in …
Backstage with 'Nutcracker' seamstress extraordinaire
Dec 10, 2024 · Jacquelyn Sanders, an instructor and costume designer extraordinaire at the Hyde Park School of Dance, puts the finishing touches on a look for this year's production of "The Nutcracker," Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.
Hyde Park: a year in review | Evening Digest | hpherald.com
Dec 31, 2024 · Bring Chicago Home fails, Treatment not Trauma makes progress. Last winter, many Hyde Park residents joined the campaign for Bring Chicago Home, canvassing door-to-door to promote the March referendum that would have created a tiered transfer tax system to fund homeless services.
City closes Hyde Park’s Lake Shore Hotel migrant shelter
Oct 28, 2024 · First announced last month, the Hyde Park shelter’s closure follows similar shutterings in Pilsen and West Town this month, removing a total of more than 3,000 beds from the city’s shelter system. Another shelter in Little Village is set to be phased out by November 3.. These closures are all part of a shift in the city’s transition to …
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5 days ago · A month into the season with a new coach at the helm, Hyde Park Academy’s girls basketball team is struggling to find its footing. The team has yet to win a game since Corey Morgan, its coach of six years, departed the South Side this summer for DePaul College Prep.
U. of C. students sue Cook County Jail - hpherald.com
Dec 4, 2024 · Two U. of C. students are suing Cook County in federal court over claims that Sheriff Tom Dart, who oversees the jail, had his top deputy revoke their security clearances after the pair wrote an op-ed criticizing the jail’s restrictions on paper.. In a September court filing, lawyers for the students wrote that there was “no legitimate penological purpose to deny security clearances to ...
‘Fidelio’: Lyric updates Beethoven’s opera of courage, love and …
Sep 30, 2024 · The concept of director Matthew Ozawa, who became Lyric’s first ever chief artistic administration officer in 2022, is represented by a huge cube on a turntable.
‘Pioneer Social Work’ restored | Evening Digest | hpherald.com
Dec 3, 2024 · Before her murals would become staples of the South Side, Astrid Fuller was a young social worker in Woodlawn. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration, Fuller worked closely with children living in foster care in the early 1960s, supervising placements due to neglect or abuse, providing therapy and occasionally appearing in court with them. At the ...
Mt. Carmel football captures 16th state title | Evening Digest ...
Dec 2, 2024 · Mount Carmel senior star quarterback Jack Elliott (right) and senior wide receiver Danyil Taylor Jr. embrace after defeating Batavia High School at Illinois State University's Hancock Stadium to win their third consecutive state championship on November 30, 2024.