Public Works plan to redesign Outer Drive near Jackson Burnham
The Chicago Plan Commission unanimously backed a Department of Public Works proposal to widen and improve the Outer Drive from 47th to 67th Street transforming the southbound lane into a grassy area. The plan aims to create safer roadways and better access to adjacent park facilities including the yacht basin and tennis courts.社区 Properties observers emphasize safety and recreation in the lakefront redesign.
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Chicago Plan Commission
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67Th
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Burnham
Hyde Park Blvd
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Jackson Park
Hyde Park
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57Th Street
Hyde Park Herald Details Staff and Publish Schedule
The Hyde Park Herald Inc. roster lists Peela Bruce Sagan as publisher and Florence Goold as editor with Mary Louise Stauffer as general manager and Jean Garner Jacobs as production manager. It notes Jan 14 1882 founding by Fred Fuller Bennett and Corence P Dresser and weekly publication from 5240 S Harper Chicago.
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Bruce Sagan
Florence Goold
Mary Louise Stauffer
Jean Garner Jacobs
Vena Skonick
Ralph Weston
Fred Fuller Bennett
C Orence P. Dresser
Hyde Park Herald Inc
S. Harper
Chicago
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If William Hale Thompson Were Mayor
A reader summarizes an imagined Thompson era confrontation over park and lakefront development. The piece contrasts past blunt governance with modern restraint and pride in Chicago's current leadership and future.
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William Hale Thompson
Chicago
Thompson
Hyde Park
Woodlawn
South Shore
Lake Shore Drive
Park
Lakefront
Wendt
Kogan
Chicago Plan Commission
Revival of interest in John Keats as biographers rise
A 1963 wave of Keats biographies and related works highlights the poet born in North London and died in Rome of tuberculosis. Walter Jackson Bates and Aileen Ward publish major studies. Stanley Kunitz provides a concise Keats selection with biography. The reviewer notes Keats as a cinematic, legendary figure ripe for film.
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John Keats
London
Keats
Fanny Browne
Hampstead
Walter Jackson Bates
Stanley Kunitz
Cromwell
Jacques Hnizdovsky
Chapman
Kunitz
John Ketas
Hollywood
van Gogh
Toulouse-Lautrec
Letters to the Editor on Outer Drive and Lake Park plans
Readers urge a slower Outer Drive change and propose alternatives for Hyde Park’s lakefront. They call for underpasses at 47th and 56th streets, better traffic flow, enhanced park space, safer access, and a unified lakefront development plan from Evanston to Indiana.
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Lake Park Avenue
Hyde Park
Evanston
Indiana
Lake Front
E. Newton Harris
Lesson to Editor on City Hall Jackson Park Debacle
One lesson emerges from last Thursday's City Hall debacle over Jackson Park Ex. The note hints at ongoing concerns and references continuation on page 6.
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