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Hyde Park Centennial Plans Touched Off by Local Banker
John F. McKnight, president of the National Bank of Hyde Park, announces Hyde Park Kenwood Centennial in spring with a week of programs parades contests and a pageant at Stagg Field June 1 to 9. Honorary co chairs include University of Chicago President George W Beadle and others. A 500 strong volunteer staff is needed to tell the Hyde Park story. First two urban renewal sites C 6 and C 7 on 53rd at Kimbark Woodlawn are offered with Feb 2 1962 deadline. 27 sites total across 43 acres will be sold to private redevelopers with preferences for displaced merchants.
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Hyde Park
John F. McKnight
National Bank of
Chicago
McKnight
George W. Beadle
Ae University of Chicago
Emerson L. Cummings
Fifth Army
Ben Heineman
Board
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Lenox R. Lohr
Museum of Science and Industry
R.N. MacBain
Chicago Osteopathic Center
Phillip Miller
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
George Pullman
The
Pullman Co
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Community Conservation Board
D. E. Mackelmann
Kimbark and
Woodlawn
Hyde Park-Kenwood
Kenwood
Bay School
Hyde Parkers
Bruce Clorfene
Mitchell Tiableson
Edwin Moldaf
Kenneth Northcott
University of Chicago
England
Moldaf
Midway
O’donnell
43Rd
47Th
55Th Street
Cottage Grove
55Th
Lake Park
South Shore
M. Young
J. Thomas
Consuela Strickland
Kimbark