Midway Plaisance will host free Obama Center grand opening watch party
The Obama Foundation will host an official watch party for the Obama Presidential Center and Library grand opening on Midway Plaisance in June.
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The Obama Foundation will host an official watch party for the Obama Presidential Center and Library grand opening on Midway Plaisance in June.
Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most iconic neighborhoods. Nestled on the city's South Side, it's the birthplace of improv comedy and the company now known as The Second City, is home to Promontory Point, is the neighborhood where Barack Obama got his political start (and where the rock commemorating his and Michelle's first kiss can be found), and where the Atomic Age was birthed under the University of Chicago football stadium. And of course, its crown jewel is the University of Chicago itself, one of the country's most prestigious and storied universities. U of C isn't just known for its stellar academics and the dozens of notable figures its produced; it's also a founding Big 10 school and the "Monsters of the Midway" nickname? Yeah, the Bears stole that from them.
A South Side business owner and philanthropist are trying to stay one step ahead of teen takeovers in Chicago, asking parents to show up in force Tuesday night in Hyde Park for a planned teen trend.
The Hyde Park community is honoring the life of a woman who safely guided generations of students to and from school.
Hyde Park Academy High School students are mourning the second classmate killed by a hit-and-run driver in little more than a week.
Cell phone video shows Monday's takeover as it turned destructive, with teens filling the streets and running on top of cars.
Despite the large number of teens in Hyde Park for that takeover, Chicago police said they issued just three curfew violations and charged a 16-year-old girl for unlawful possession of a weapon.
Police on Thursday were investigating two shootings that happened in broad daylight the day before in Chicago's Hyde Park and Woodlawn neighborhoods.
Chicago police are conducting a hate crime investigation after someone wrote a racist threat on the window of a Hyde Park theater run by Black women.
Hyde Park Produce, a small family-owned grocery store on the South Side, was abruptly forced to close this week.
Barnes & Noble was set to reopen in Skokie on Wednesday, just weeks after it closed.
A man's body was pulled from Lake Michigan offshore from Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood on Saturday.
A man has been charged and extradited from Iowa in a 2024 shooting that left another man dead in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
A new thrift store in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood is helping to support HIV/AIDS health care and advocacy.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the store on 53rd Street was held Saturday.
Chicago police issued a warning about a string of vehicle break-ins involving Honda Civics on the South Side.
Chicago police this weekend issued a warning about a string of strange vehicle break-ins in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, most recently this past Thursday.
One of the new locations will be at 150 N. State Street, which is the former Old Navy store that closed back in 2023.
The University of Chicago issued a notice after a man was shot just east of campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood this week.
Chicago police are investigating a string of five burglaries just hours apart at businesses in the East Hyde Park neighborhood, four of them on the same block.
Chicago police said the burglaries happened between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. in the 1600 block of East 55th Street on Tuesday.
More than 30 people, many children, had to be taken to hospitals to be checked for injuries after a multi-school bus crash in Hyde Park Friday morning.
A crash involving three school buses left over 30 people injured, most of them children, on their way to a field trip on Friday morning in Hyde Park.
The founders of The Sport House in the Hyde Park area call it a home for play, fitness, and community. Jackie Kostek spent the morning there on Monday.
The popular music venue in a post on Instagram said they will remain open through their New Year's Eve party.
