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Newspaper
Hyde Park Herald
Location
Hyde Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1958
Page
3
Construction starts on two of twelve city owned parking lots to ease congestion. A 53 car lot at 54th and Cornell opens August 15 as a metered facility. A 178 car attended lot at 52nd and Lake Park opens around September 15.
Robert McDougal Jr. was re elected president of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Child Care Society and Day Nursery. The group toured existing sites and the Hyde Park Nursery before inspecting a proposed combined 55th and University site. Miss Ethel Verry reported on foster home and day care programs, noting 529 children served, including 289 in foster care and 41 placed for adoption, with 27 of the adoptions being Negro babies, and 162 enrolled in the Nursery.
The Board of Education authorized paying 80 000 dollars for a 200 foot parcel on the west side of Woodlawn to add to Shakespeare school at 1119 East 46th. A second expansion at Reavis school at 49th and Drexel will buy over 10 500 square feet to the north of the building for more recreational space.
Neighborhood groups on Kimbark and University areas schedule meetings from June 5 to June 10 to discuss the urban renewal plan zoning variations public housing and middle income housing proposals. Sessions occur at offices homes and a recreation room with YMCA locations listed.
The benefit event netted more than $8,000 with ticket sales turning a clear profit as patrons underwrote all costs. Top seller Karen Karlsen moved $72.50 in tickets. eight sellers exceeded $30, earning prizes. New lobby exhibits at Piccadilly Theatre featured a Rose Dunn fashion show and pantomime by Sarah McGee.
Round the World Importers opens at 1515 E Hyde Park Blvd in Hyde Park. Perry Feld manages the store, affiliated with International Associates in the National Bank of Hyde Park Building. Joseph Titan, long-time Hyde Park resident, directs the firm and envisions growth with the Seaway’s arrival bringing world markets to their doorstep.
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