CCC To Meet Tonight On Urban Renewal Plan
The Community Conservation Council will hold a public meeting tonight at 7 30 in the Neighborhood Club. Edwin Rothschild says the Department of Urban Renewal plan amendments and the Alport buildings on 53rd Street will be the main topics. Also on the agenda are Canyon relocation concerns between Ellis and Drexel and 47th 48th streets modular homes at 50th and Blackstone and 47th Place Bryson Hotel owner Joseph Ticktin is expected to speak.
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Community Conservation Council
Department of Urban Renewal
Edwin
Rothschild
Blackstone
Alport
53Rd St
Harper and
Lake Park
Canyon
Ellis and
Drexel
47Th
48Th Streets
50Th
47Th Place
Joseph Ticktin
Bryson Hotel
49Th and
Community Conference to Form Pollution Subcommittee
Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference considers creating a subcommittee to draft position statements on water pollution and resource management. George Leposky chairs, invites residents to join. Focus includes bond issues, a proposed state natural resources department, and local Sanitary District industrial surcharge plans.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
George Leposky
Woodlawn
Outivie
State Department of Natural Resources
Ciuuizen
Illinois
Natural Resources Department
Metropolitan Sanitary District
Kenwood School Plans Face Overcrowding and Reuse
District 14 leader Dr. Donald Blyth reports on policy choices for Kenwood Elementary as Shoesmith remains crowded and Hyde Park High faces possible closing. The Kenwood building may host a middle school or serve as temporary space if Hyde Park closes, with PTA and community groups weighing authority and timing. A next advisory session is planned in a few weeks.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
District 14
Donald J. Blyth
Blyth
Kenwood
Shoesmith School
Hyde Park High School
Alport building dispute extends as tenants stay
A court hearing before Judge Franklin Kral on February 11 heard that 16 residents remain in the Alport buildings at 1500 to 1506 East 53rd Street while the Harper address at 5237 to 5239 Harper was vacated. The judge allowed continued occupancy for the ground floor shops’ caretaker with strict limits and postponed further sale negotiations with the Department of Urban Renewal until May 7.
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Alport
Sterling Sutton
Department of Urban Renewal
Franklin Kral
Harper
DUR
Kral
Cornell Village Tops Out 27 Story Building In Frigid Weather
The 20,000 pound chiller unit was raised to the top of the 27 story Cornell Village building last week to symbolize its topping out. The complex will include 18 townhouses alongside the high rise and should be completed this spring. Architect Ezra Gordon of East View Park designed the project.
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Cornell Village
Ezra Gordon
East View Park
YMCA fundraiser kicks off 1969 drive for Hyde Park and citywide programs
The Near South District YMCA starts its 1969 campaign with a February 20 luncheon at the YMCA Hotel 826 South Wabash. Chairman John R. Montgomery III of Lakeside Bank leads a drive targeting 172000 dollars to expand youth and senior programs including 1000 campers from Robert Taylor Homes and the Mobile Service.
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Near South
YMCA
Hyde Park
Wabash Avenue
Washington Park
Senior Citizen’s
Martin Johnson
South Wabash Avenue
John R. Montgomery III
Lakeside Bank
South King Drive
Y Hotel
Earl L. Neal
West
Washington Boulevard
Ymca Ov Ef
Chicago
Robert Taylor
Montgomery
Advanced Gifts
Neil Koppelman
Hyde Park Bank and Trust Company
East 53Rd Street
Dorothy Leavell
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CCC
Board of Directors
Leposky
Milwaukee
League of Women Voters
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Lake Michigan Basin
Area Pta’s
The
University of Chicago
Pta’s
Conference
Curtis Melnick
Leu
Hyde Park High
Robert Franklin
Bay School
Alport’s Attorneys
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