In the Back of the Yards neighborhood near 51st Street and Racine Avenue, you’ll find something a bit unexpected: thousands of honeybees buzzing away producing honey for the Chicago Honey Co-op, a non-profit organization in Chicago that harvests honey in some unique locations. The co-op has 50 hives located in various places throughout the city. […]
The 10th Annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival features about 200 musicians on its diverse lineup scattered over 13 stages with 34 shows. Some of those 200 musicians are South Side locals who are honored to play in their own backyard. Victor Goines is a clarinetist and saxophonist who has played at local venues such as […]
Small businesses are what makes Hyde Park the unique neighborhood it is, but more and more, these independently owned businesses are struggling. So far in 2016, six of the nine storefronts that have closed were run by small business owners. Many have said it’s a struggle to compete with the big corporations moving in like […]
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is beginning its school year with 508 less teachers across the district, and, according to reports, more than 60 school librarians have also been cut. WBEZ recently reported that CPS librarian numbers have been decreasing over the years, from 454 librarians budgeted in 2012 to 217 in 2015 and now this […]
Hyde Park has been written about in countless novels, filmed for television and movie scenes and painted on professional canvasses. Now, to add to that list of neighborhood dedication, there is a 42-foot long poem written about Hyde Park. The Indie City Writers group set out to write the longest poem in Hyde Park during […]
The Hyde Park neighborhood is over 160 years old, so it’s no surprise that some of its buildings are a century old or more as well. With older buildings, however, come much needed restorations and renovations, and that’s where Tom Fortune comes in. Fortune, one of the co-founders of Fortune Restoration, has been working on […]
On Aug. 17, 2015, a group of South Side community members decided to go on a hunger strike to preserve Dyett High School, 555 E. 51st St., as a neighborhood school. Due to the tenacity of the 12 hunger strikers, who participated in a liquid-only fast for 34 days, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced that […]
Allison Murray 