Hyde Park Kenwood Eyes New High School Site Vote
A Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference vote endorses building a new 10th through 12th grade high school for District 14. The plan centers on Murray School site at 53rd and Kenwood or adjacent south campus land east of Woodlawn Avenue with a May 10 conference board meeting to decide.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
University of Chicago
Chicago Board of Education
Woodlawn
Milton J. Cohler
Cohler
Murray School
53Rd
Kenwood
Murray
Ray School
PTA
60Th
61St
Stony Island
Cottage Grove
Veterans’ Hospital
Woodlawn Avenue
Ray Marks
Hyde Park
Edward O’connell
Robert Solomon
Walter Ducey
Chicago School Board
Friends of the Schools Committee
Three alarm blaze kills elderly man in cooperative
A three alarm fire killed an elderly man and caused about $20,000 in damage. The blaze began on the landing between the third and fourth floors, with the most destruction on the third and fourth floors of the cooperative apartment building watched by hundreds of onlookers.
Gregory stars in Hyde Park benefit show at Mandel Hall
The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference presents a Dick Gregory benefit titled Star in Our Midst at 7 30 p m Sunday May 16 in Mandel Hall. Valacha and the Hyde Park All-Star Modern Jazz Group join Gregory with Sid McCoy as emcee. Unreserved seats cost 2 50, available at the Conference office Hyde Park Savings and Loan Mandel Hall and at the door.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
Dick Gregory
Mandel Hall
Gregory
Folksinger
Valacha
Hyde Park
Sid McCoy
M.c
Adrian Alexander
Dorchester
Dennis Altman
Blackstone
Chuck Stone
Madison Park
Washington, D.C
Park plans outlined for Jackson and lakefront improvements
Park District Supt. Erwin Weiner and landscape director Max Matz updated residents at Sinai Congregation hall on Apr 28. Jackson Park will gain access improvements, an artificial skating rink, renovated Japanese Garden, new comfort stations, playgrounds, and overpasses as part of the Outer Drive project with $1.25 million planned. no existing facilities will be removed until replacements are built. broader park region serves Hyde Park area.
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Herald
Park District
Erwin Weiner
Max Matz
Everett-South Shore
Sinai Congregation
Weiner
Jackson Park
Lakefront
Matz
Chicago Plan Commission
Soth
Hyde Park High
Hayes Drive
Hyde Park
Kenwood
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Hyde Park High School
Barbara Carey
Perons
la Rabida
List
57Th Streets
Museum of Science and Industry
S6th
East End
S6th Street
Bret Harte
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