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55th–56th–57th Street is a commuter rail station in Hyde Park, Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago; and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana. The South Shore Line calls the station 57th Street.
Engraving of the Hyde Park Water Works, 1882. In 1853, Paul Cornell, a real estate speculator and cousin of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, purchased 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land [9] between 51st and 55th streets along the shore of Lake Michigan, [10] with the idea of attracting other Chicago businessmen and their families to the area. [9]
St. Thomas the Apostle Church is a historic site at 5472 S. Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, at 55th Street.. A Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago, it was built in 1922 and opened in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
East Hyde Park Hyde Park: East Pilsen Lower West Side: East Side East Side: East Village: West Town: Eden Green Riverdale: Edgebrook: Forest Glen: Edgewater Edgewater: Edgewater Beach: Edgewater: Edgewater Glen: Edgewater: Edison Park Edison Park: Englewood Englewood: Fernwood: Roseland: Fifth City East Garfield Park: Ford City: West Lawn ...
Chicago Park District parks serving the South Side include Burnham Park, [106] Jackson Park, [107] Washington Park, [108] Midway Plaisance, [109] and Harold Washington Park. [110] Away from the Hyde Park area, large parks include the 69-acre (28 ha) McKinley Park , [ 111 ] 323-acre (131 ha) Marquette Park , [ 112 ] the 198-acre (80 ha) Calumet ...
A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albín Polášek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blaník Mountain. The word "plaisance" is both the French spelling of and a quaint obsolete spelling for "pleasance", itself an obscure word in this context meaning "a pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water".
The school's Italian restaurant, Ristorante Caterina de' Medici. The Hyde Park campus operates four public restaurants for students to gain experience in kitchen and management skills. Food served at the American Bounty Restaurant highlights Hudson Valley produce and is prepared in the style of cuisines of the Americas. The Bocuse Restaurant ...
Garfield Boulevard is an east-west street on the south side of Chicago and its immediate western suburbs. Its western segment, entirely known as 55th Street, runs east from Maple Avenue in Downers Grove until it becomes Joliet Road in Countryside.