Hyde Park

Crime

3 University of Chicago students held up near campus

The students were approached by people with guns Wednesday afternoon and robbed. No one was hurt. University police will ‘maintain an increased presence’ following the incidents.

By Sun-Times Wire

Obituaries

Robert Grossman, Hyde Park lawyer and writer, dies at 89

Mr. Grossman was the principal writer of the 1967 Illinois Housing Development Act, which established the Illinois Housing Development Authority to finance affordable housing across Illinois. He also hosted an early coffee at his Hyde Park home for Barack Obama when he was running for state Senate.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

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News

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough remembered as trailblazer at Hyde Park memorial service

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth and other elected officials shared stories about Karen Yarbrough, who died April 7, and her impact as a fixture in local politics who cleared paths for others to follow.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

Architecture and Design

City panel recommends landmark status for century-old Hyde Park church

A landmark designation for the Hyde Park Union Church, designed by architect James Gamble Rogers, would protect exterior and interior elements from future demolition.

By Abby Miller

Several pairs of people play chess on green and white chess boards set up on long wooden tables.

News

U of Chicago students honor slain Hyde Park bartender, build bridges through 'beautiful game of chess'

Roommates and friends Ross Shapiro and Dylan Sunjic began hosting Chess Night at The Cove Lounge, where Diego Damis worked, in Hyde Park to bring people together. They plan to take the event to other parts of the city.

By Cindy Hernandez

The University of Chicago Medicine located at 5841 S. Maryland, in the Hyde Park neighborhood, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020.

Health

University of Chicago Medicine, nurses reach tentative contract to avoid Thursday strike

National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United — which represents 2,800 nurses in the health system — said the one-day strike set for Thursday was canceled after a tentative contract was reached.

By Violet Miller

‘Oppenheimer,’ nukes and secrets: Take a walking tour of Chicago’s atomic history

By Robert Loerzel

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Woodlawn

New playground, dog-friendly areas envisioned for Jackson Park, Midway Plaisance Park

A universally accessible playground is planned for the east end of Midway Plaisance Park. The plans still have to be approved by the park district board. Other improvements include revamped ball fields at Jackson Park, as well as a new dog-friendly area.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

Entertainment and Culture

Bayless Family Foundation issues more than $500,000 in latest round of grants to Chicago theaters

Definition Theatre and Timeline Theatre Company were each awarded $180,000; Chicago Children’s Theatre received $100,000 and Remy Bumppo Theatre Company $50,000.

By Kade Heather

Crime

Man fleeing police injured in jump from third-story window in Hyde Park

Police responded to calls of a suspected mail theft in the lobby of a building in the 1200 block of East 54th Street on Sunday. A man fled, jumped from a window and was hurt.

By Sun-Times Wire

Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” at the announcement by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of the latest Doomsday Clock setting on Jan. 23, 2024.

Columnists

Sun might get us before atomic bombs do

Does climate crisis moot fear of nuclear Armageddon?

By Neil Steinberg

Noel Brusman on a date with her future husband Marvin at the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva in 1979.

Columnists

One life, out of the spotlight, still significant

Noël Brusman, Hyde Park activist and teacher, overcame challenges in a colorful life.

By Neil Steinberg

Pope.L smiles and wears glasses with his head slightly turned while working on a sculpture in 2013.

Obituaries

Pope.L, world-renowned performance artist and teacher at University of Chicago, dies at 68

Pope.L called himself a “fisherman of social absurdity.” He once crawled along New York’s Broadway in a Superman costume and ate scraps of the Wall Street Journal while sitting on a toilet.

By Mitch Dudek

An aerial view - looking north - of the Barack Obama Presidential Center construction site at 6001 S. Stony Island Ave.

Halfway built, the Obama Presidential Center is already a South Side landmark

By Lynn Sweet

Music

Kate Dumbleton’s passion for Hyde Park Jazz Festival comes through fabulously loud and clear

‘It means a lot to be able to give exposure to local artists who might not get it otherwise,’ the longtime fest’s artistic director says.

By Lloyd Sachs | For the Sun-Times

Obituaries

Finley C. Campbell, college professor who fought for racial unity, marched against Nazis in Marquette Park, dead at 88

Finley C. Campbell stood up to neo-Nazis in Chicago, was shot protesting the KKK in Mississippi and firmly believed that multiracial unity was the key to changing the world.

By Mitch Dudek

The limestone seawall at Promontory Point, pictured in May of 2022. A man was found dead at the point on Saturday, police said.

Chicago

Man found dead at Promontory Point in Hyde Park

Police found the man in the 5400 block of South Lake Shore Drive.

By Sun-Times Wire

Obituaries

Sliman Bensmaia, rocker, University of Chicago researcher whose work helped restore touch to people with prosthetic limbs, dead at 49

He helped develop the first robotic prosthetic arm that gave realistic touch feedback, enabling a man, paralyzed from the chest down, to distinguish between touches on individual fingers and the palm of a robotic hand.

By Mitch Dudek

Creative Chicago

Waste not — the miraculous 2nd (and 3rd) lives of unwanted objects

Rescuing materials from an ignominious end in a landfill is part of the transformative mission of Chicago’s reuse facilities and many of its artists.

By S. Nicole Lane

Cameron Bell, 3, plays with a toy car along the edge of a sand box earlier this month at Bixler Park in Hyde Park.

Columnists

Neighborhood playlot a fleeting wonderland of old toys, young faces, treasured moments

We could only spend the winter dreaming of the coming spring. “New” old toys would appear. Bixler would again fill with little kids, coming from blocks and miles and neighborhoods away to run and yell and be together.

By Lucy Biederman