Public hearing on Murray school site and high school plan
District 14 faces a public hearing on October 13 and 20 over a proposed high school site. Murray PTA protests expanding Hyde Park High and urges use of the Kenwood site at 50th and Blackstone for a new school citing crowding at nearby elementaries.
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Murray School
Murray
53Rd
Kenwood
Murray Pta
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Benjamin C. Willis
Fisk
Scott
Tesla
Wadsworth
Woodlawn
Hyde Park
Stony Island
50Th
Blackstone
Herschel Rader
Walter Ducey
Eugene Krell
Shakespeare School
Shakespeare
47Th
Bret Harte Pta
Hyde Park High
Daley pauses Outer Drive work amid planning panel meeting
Mayor Daley ordered a delay on the 53rd to 59th Outer Drive section after a letter from civic leaders led to a five member panel of planners and architects to review alternatives. The move follows protests by Burnham Committee members arrested for tree banding and calls from the Hyde Park-Kenwood Conference to save trees.
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Richard Wade
Richard J. Daley
Wade
Cornell Drive
60Th
57Th Street
John Duba
Daley
Louis Wetmore
Robert Christiansen
James Fitzpatrick
Milton Pikarsky
The
Herald
Tree protesters arrested in Burnham Park incident
A group of tree banders was arrested last Sunday in Burnham Park near 55th after posting signs on trees. Sgt Thompson Phelps read the park ordinance against handbills, and the protesters wore white neck strips to tie signs protesting tree cutting for a new Outer Drive project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson Phelps
Burnham Park
Outer Drive
Honor two foreign bar residents honored by awards
Two Chicago residents Hyde Park and others are named by the Immigrants' Service League to receive the annual Distinguished Achievement Award. The Oct 19 dinner at the Drake Hotel will honor six naturalized citizens including Dr Paul Tillich and Martin Martinez.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Immigrants’ Service League
League
Hyde Park
Drake Hotel
Paul Tillich
Martin Martinez
Tillich
Prussia
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Daniel Burnham Committee
William and Norah Erickson
Seth
Nancy Hays
Pauline Persing-Ghose
Dorchester
Philip Harris
South Shore
Erickson
William E. Erickson
Phelps
John Barber
Harris
United States
Germany
Hitler
America
John Nuveen
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Martinez
Electro-Motive Division
General Motors Corp
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