The Hyde Park Herald, 21 July 2004

Volume number 124, Issue number 29


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[view result] Fatality at 52nd St. crash
[view result] Three cars collide at 52nd Street and Greenwood Avenue last week, overturning one vehicle and killing a driver.
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[view result] Concerns mount over CTA bus route changes to #28 The next HPKCC Transit Task Force meeting will be held Wed., Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 S. Kenwood Ave.
[view result] 54th St. rowhouse faces city fines A building permit search can be found on-line at www.cityofchicago.org/DCAP/Permits/ PermitStatus.
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[view result] Obama headlines Dem convention
[view result] Hyde Park state Sen. Barack Obama, pictured here on the campaign trail with Kerry in Chicago, will deliver the keynote speech at the July 26-29 DNC in Boston.
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[view result] CTA should represent at Transit Workshop editorial
[view result] Obama on the right track
[view result] Letters to the editor Buses should stay on S. Hyde Park Blvd.
[view result] Robie House is area's greatest asset
[view result] Mayor Daley thanks Sagan for 50 years as Herald publisher
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[view result] HP social, political history set in stone Historical Hyde Park
[view result] These and other murals will be featured during a bus tour of South Side murals July 25. The event is sponsored by the Hyde Park Historical Society.
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[view result] Three kids torment barber
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[view result] Elaine P. Snyderman, 69
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[view result] Local kids in film workshop
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[view result] Steppenwolf play a debate over love theater review
[view result] Laurie Metcalf and Yasen Peyankov star in Frankie and Johnny a Steppenwolf.
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[view result] Millennium Park pavilion a big hit music review
[view result] Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park
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[view result] Even Bridges can't save Door in the Floor film review
[view result] Jeff Bridges plays a children's book author in a failing marriage in Door in the Floor.
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[view result] The Hyde Park heral
[view result] Sagan and the Herald: 50 years and counting
[view result] Hyde Park Herald publisher Bruce Sagan in 1953
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[view result] For this week's Hyde Park news, see section two
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[view result] The knock on the door that started it all...
[view result] Also in July 1953...
[view result] The first draft of history — a 50-year timeline of Hyde Park
[view result] The major story of the last 50 years: Urban Renewal
[view result] This ariel photograph of Hyde Park, from the late 19405, looks northeast from somewhere over the Statue of Time at the west end of the Midway. During the next 30 years, the landscape would radically change. Looking closely: in the large empty space in the middle of the picture is old Stagg Field, now occupied by the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library. The tall buildings in the far left background are the apartment buildings built east of the IC in the 19205. The area at the Midway and Cottage Grove Avenue is the married student temporary housing, built by the U. of C. after World War 11. The land is now occupied by the University Hospital campus.
[view result] Block clubs were promoted by the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference as a way of maintaining neighborhood standards and introducing neighbors to one another. This is a photograph of the Drexel Square block club. The conference created more than 60 clubs in the community over the years.
[view result] The Hyde Park herald
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[view result] About to be relocated again: After 43 years at the corner of 53rd Street and Harper Avenue, the Herald will soon move offices. The Hyde Park Theater and the building that currently houses the Herald offices will be either rehabbed or replaced by its new owner, the University of Chicago.
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[view result] 5th Ward: Home of Independents—home of mayors?
[view result] The black and white Marshall Korshak, former sth Ward Democratic Committeeman, pictured in a 1963 Hyde Park Herald. See story below.
[view result] The Fifth Ward was for a brief moment in 1982 the cradle of mayoral candidates (Harold Washington and Bernie Epton). But for much longer it was the home of a thriving Independent political movement. Pictured here are current state Rep. Babara Flynn Currie, chatting with then-sth Ward Aid. Larry Bloom, while politico David Canter (center) talks with then-sth Ward Committeeman Alan Dobry.
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[view result] Sagan's journalism career, from the Lighthouse
[view result] Herald publisher Bruce Sagan's first professional assignment as a reporter was covering crime at the old Hyde Park Police Station, then at 5233 S. Lake Park Aye. The old station was torn down during Urban Renewal.
[view result] Bruce Sagan and Judy Sagan took over the Hyde Park Herald from Michael Wienberg (left). This photograph ran on the front page of the Sagans' first issue, July 23, 1953.
[view result] The road from 55th Street to Hollywood
[view result] One of the most famous quips about Hyde Park—"Black and white together, shoulder to shoulder against the lower classes"—came from Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who got their start on 55th Street.
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[view result] "How tough it was"
[view result] First baby of 1958: "A real Hyde Parker"
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[view result] How the Hyde Park Herald changed newspapers
[view result] The Herald published its first color photograph—the Museum of Science and Industry from across the lagoon—on June 26, 1969. It was printed on the first color lithographic newspaper press in Chicago. Lithograph presses were becoming faster and capable of printing good color pictures.
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[view result] The surprising savior of Wright's Robie House
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[view result] The Committee to Save the Robie House invited architect Frank Lloyd Wright to look over the site (above left) when the Chicago Theological Seminary announced demolition plans. Wright looks over a Herald's Urban Renewal issue with commitee chairman William Mac Donald. The photo ran in the March 20, 1957 Herald.
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[view result] Harper Court: it takes determination and $100 bonds
[view result] Hyde Park Historical Society archives at the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library The row of wood-frame temporary buildings built for the 1893 World's Fair, called the Artist's Colony, housed small arts-andcrafts shops near 57th Street and Stony Island Avenue. The popular shops were torn down during Urban Renewal.
[view result] Will Hyde Park Lose Artisans?
[view result] Herald publisher Bruce Sagan and others conceived of Harper Court (above) during Urban Renewal, which hit small, artisan businesses particularly hard.
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[view result] The initial impressions of a historic event alderman's report
[view result] Leon Despres, March, 2004
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[view result] The more things change...
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[view result] Hyde Park Historical Society archives at the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
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[view result] Rescuing a small but sweet piece of local history
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[view result] Former editor reflects on turbulent tenure
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[view result] Lee Botts: "Adventurous times"
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[view result] Long-time Herald attorney recalls early Sagan days
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[view result] Hyde Park lessons learned on a ride down the Dan Ryan
[view result] This 14-story white building, at 71st Street and the Dan Ryan, was built by Herald Publisher Bruce Sagan. The Hyde Park lesson Sagan brought to the building: look everywhere for useful government programs and pull them into the neighborhood.
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[view result] BUSINESSMEN AND BULLDOZERS Beehive Jazz Combo Blows Renewal Blues
[view result] Photos above and upper right courtesy of South East Chicago Commission archives at Special Collections Research Center, U. of C. Library.
[view result] Fun on Wooded Isle
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[view result] Four Hyde Parkers in search of a law
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[view result] The town where Marie Montessori was born
[view result] Lake Park Avenue storefront
[view result] A burned-out school building
[view result] Ancona Montessori School began in a Lake Park Avenue storefront, but soon moved into the building at 49th Street and Dorchester Avenue pictured above. Formerly occupied by the Faulkner Girls School, the building burned, thus making it an inexpensive buy for the young parents. The fire ravaged the second floor and the parents on the board decided to tear off the second floor. Ancona has built two additions to accomodate its growing population, and still uses the original building for a gym, library and art rooms.
[view result] 55th Street ca. 1940...
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[view result] 55th Street ca. 2004
[view result] Marc Monaghan
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[view result] 50 years on 55th Street
[view result] Photos on the right and above left courtesy of the Hyde Park Historical Society archives at the Special Collections Research Center, U. of C. Library. Bottom left: Marc Monaghan
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[view result] The South East Chicago Commission
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[view result] Middle of the road
[view result] Reproduced from the book Hyde Park Illinois, Arcadia Publishing
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[view result] Strangle hold
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[view result] The planning and rebuilding
[view result] This 1983 photograph captures state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie talking with then-Congressman Harold Washington. Washington, who lived in Hyde Park near 53rd Street and Hyde Park Boulevard, ran for mayor that year. Currie, who is still Hyde Park's Rep., is the now the majority leader in the House.
[view result] The planners behind Urban Renewal: The man behind much of Urban Renewal planning, Jack Meltzer (standing), consults with architect Harry Weiss (white shirt, jacket), SECC director Julian Levi (with glasses) and others in the planning offices of the South East Chicago Commission.
[view result] Crowds gather as Mayor Richard J. Daley kicks off the official beginning of the Hyde Park A and B Land Clearance Program in May 1955. He is preparing to demolish a house at 5456 S. Blackstone Avenue.
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[view result] Other troubles Other kinds of problem solving
[view result] The men here—Herald publisher Bruce Sagan (center), Co-op manager Walter Sandbach (left) and Everett Ramsey, who owned the Hyde Park News Service— are celebrating the opening of the shopping center Kimbark Plaza. The center, still on 53rd Street and Kimbark Avenue, was built and owned by the businesses housed there, many that had been displaced by Urban Renewal.
[view result] This wood-framed building, on the northeast corner of 55th Street and Woodlawn Avenue, was built as temporary housing for the 1893 World's Fair in Jackson Park. It was demolished in the reconstruction of 55th Street. Herald publisher Bruce Sagan lived in the building in 1948-49 while attending the University of Chicago.
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[view result] From the ashes
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[view result] Not business as usual
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[view result] You were just lucky—it was all economics In The Maillbox
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