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Home Of The Obamas' Chicago Neighbors For Sale

Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Bill Grimshaw, 5040 South Greenwood Chicago, Chicago Real Estate, Kenwood, Obama Family, Obama Chicago Home, Hyde Park, Obama Neighbor, Barack Obama, Jacky Grimshaw, Obama Next Door, Obama Chicago House, Chicago News

Yearning to get closer to President Obama? A rare opportunity just opened up. The home next door to Barack and Michelle Obama in Kenwood's mansion di...

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Engaging American Muslims Will Give a Far Better Message to the Muslim World than Speeches

Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Islamophobia, Hyde Park, Egypt, President Obama, American Muslims, Torture, Foreign Policy, World News
Abdul Malik Mujahid

Muslims are not looking for handouts. We're simply striving for equal opportunity and inclusiveness.

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Dixie Kitchen, Hyde Park Restaurant Touted On TV By Obama, Closing

Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop, Obama Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop, Carol Andresen, Hyde Park, Obama Check Please, Harper Court, University of Chicago Landlord, Food, Video, Chicago News

The Dixie Kitchen & Bait Shop, a staple of the Hyde Park restaurant scene that President Obama once touted on "Check, Please!", is closing in June, th...

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Leon Despres Dies At 101 (VIDEO INTERVIEWS)

Huffington Post | Posted 06.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Leon Depres, Hyde Park, Leon Despres, Leon Despres Dies, Chicago City Council, Tom Geoghegan, Despres Daley, Video, Chicago News

Leon Despres, the former Chicago Alderman described as the "absolute conscience of the city" for his dedicated activism and consistent opposition to M...

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Community Garden At Risk

Jamie Kalven | Posted 04.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Milton Friedman Institute, Chicago Theological Seminary, University of Chicago, Woodlawn, Community Gardens, Experimental Station, 61st Street Community Garden, Hyde Park, Chicago News
Jamie Kalven

The garden has remained a border institution: common ground shared by residents of Woodlawn and Hyde Park

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Ms. F and Me

Robert M. Grossman | Posted 04.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Maria Farrakhan, Cultural Understanding, Louis Farrakhan, Obama's Inauguration, Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Hyde Park, Chicago News
Robert M. Grossman

Farrakhan was much more of the generation and attitude of Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright. Barack had passed them by. He didn't see things their way. Perhaps his daughter didn't either.

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Dream Big Dreams -- a Song for the Ages

Rondi Charleston | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ambition, Vietnam War Protests, Oliver Sacks, Dreams, President Obama, Rondi Charleston, Amazing Grace, Obama "Dreams of My Father", Inspiration, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, Hyde Park, Musicophilia, Politics News
Rondi Charleston

While no one yet knows what impact the Obama presidency will have on the world, it is important that we put our bodies, minds and spirits to work to help make this administration a success.

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The University of Chicago's Health Care Desertification Plan

David Hoyt | Posted 03.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine, U of C Medical Center Cuts, University of Chicago Medical Center, Health, Hyde Park Health Care, Hyde Park Hospitals, Hyde Park, Hyde Park Health Care Options, Chicago News
David Hoyt

It is now safe to say that the recently announced budget cuts at the University of Chicago Medical Center will leave Hyde Park without easily accessible primary care for everyone.

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Meathead City: Winter Parking "Place-Savers" and Other Primitive Behaviors

David Hoyt | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Parking Rituals, Dibs Parking, Dibs, Chicago Dibs, Hyde Park, Chicago Parking, Chicago News
David Hoyt

Using junk to claim a shoveled parking spot fits right into an ethically dubious tradition of getting what you can for yourself from the public domain, with a Sopranos-style edge.

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Chicago's President: City Celebrates Obama's Inauguration

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Video, Obama's Inauguration, Valois, Dusable Museum, Valois Obama, Obama Inauguration Chicago, Obama's Chicago Inauguration, Hyde Park, Barack Obama, Chicago News

Neighborhoods throughout Chicago celebrated the inauguration of one of their own Tuesday. A roundup of reaction across the city, from the AP: Matti...

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Go, Go-Go Obama . . .

Jon Greenberg | Posted 02.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Scott Reifert, Chicago White Sox, Jerry Reinsdorf, Hyde Park, Barack Obama, Sports, Sox Southpaw, Barack Obama White Sox Cap, Obama Inauguration, Obama White Sox, White Sox Marketing, Chicago News
Jon Greenberg

White Sox hat sales were up 25 percent in November and December. It's no coincidence. When the most famous guy in the world wears your hat every day in front of a phalanx of cameras, it tends to leave an impression.

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Hyde Park Returns To Near-Normalcy After The Obamas' Departure

CBS 2 | Pamela Jones | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Video, Hyde Park Security, Hyde Park Police Presence, Obama's Neighborhood, Obama Family, Hyde Park, Barack Obama, Chicago News

Some things in the neighborhood haven't changed. Leftover holiday lights still flicker, and police still block the Obamas' block. But residents say t...

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Hyde Park Development Project Hit With Lawsuit

Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 02.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Antheus Capital, Village Foods, Village Center Development, Hyde Park, Hyde Park Development, Chicago News

The owner of the Village Foods grocery store in Hyde Park has sued to stop a developer's plans to demolish the Village Center shopping/office complex ...

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Obama's Hyde Park

New York Times | Michael Y. Park | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Robie House, Hyde Park Hair Salon, Obama Tourism, Barack Obama Chicago, Barack Obama Hyde Park, Obama Chicago Tourism, 57th Street Books, Valois, Hyde Park, Barack Obama, The Obama Breakfast, Chicago News

Hyde Park hasn't gotten this much attention since 1893, when the Chicago World's Fair introduced the country to electricity and serial killers. But in...

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How a Team of Rivals Collaborates

Mike Bonifer | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business

Read More: William Gates, Clinton, Team of Rivals, Chicago, Neva Boyd, Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Cabinet, Obama, Ari Gold, Improvisation, Viola Spolin, Hyde Park, Gamechangers, Business News
Mike Bonifer

A lot has been made of Obama's casting of the key roles in the new administration. There is astonishment aplenty that he's put together a team of strong personalities and former rivals.

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Alderman Seeks Bush Pardon For Colleague

AP | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: George Bush, Chicago City Council Corruption, Larry Bloom, John Christopher, Ed Smith, Presidential Pardons, Larry Bloom Pardon, Bush Pardons, Smith Bloom Pardon, George Bush Pardons, President Bush, Hyde Park, Bloom Pardon, Chicago News

A Chicago politician is seeking a pardon for a colleague. Alderman Ed Smith says President Bush should pardon former Alderman Larry Bloom, the Chicag...

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University Of Chicago Bracing For Budget Cuts

Crain's Chicago Business | Steve Strahler | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: U of C, UChicago, UChicago Budget, Thomas Rosenbaum, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Financial Aid, University of Chicago Budget Cuts, Hyde Park, Robert Zimmer, Chicago News

The University of Chicago is bracing for budget cuts that could arrive as soon as the start of the new year. Administrators have been ordered to outl...

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Obama not selling Chicago home

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: First Family, Washington Times, Hyde Park, Obama Hyde Park, Bellantoni, Barack Obama, Obama Chicago, Politics News
Christina Bellantoni

First published at WashingtonTimes.com The CBS affiliate in Chicago captured a nice scoop today when President-elect Barack Obama stopped in at Manny...

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An Obama Boom in Hyde Park?

David Hoyt | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Kenwood, Chicago Inner City, Hyde Park, Economic Development, Barack Obama, Obama Economic Development, Obama Tourism, Chicago Tourism, President Obama, Obama Chicago Tourism, Obama Hyde Park, Chicago News
David Hoyt

It will take a lot more than the impulse spending of a presidential entourage to provide the housing, transit, jobs, and retail amenities that are needed in the President-elect's own back yard.

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Ghosts of Obama's Hyde Park Manse

Nathan Gardels | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama House, Obama Family Home, Hyde Park, Barack Obama, Obama Hyde Park, Obama Hyde Park Home, Chicago, Politics News
Nathan Gardels

Barack Obama's Hyde Park home is destined to become a national landmark. When I lived there between 1969 and 1973 the mansion was a hub of social activism.

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Obama And Daley: Allies, Not Intimates

Chicago Tribune | Rick Pearson and Bob Secter | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Obama City Hall, Chicago Reformers, Richard Daley Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Obama Daley, Obama Chicago, Mayor Daley, Hyde Park Liberals, Bill Daley, Harold Washington, Hyde Park, Barack Obama, Obama Chicago Machine, Obama Clout, Chicago News

Barack Obama won election to the Illinois Senate in 1996 with no help from Richard Daley. The Chicago mayor offered no assistance to Obama in 2000 whe...

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Hyde Park Debates Obama Effect

Crain's Chicago Business | Steven R. Strahler | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama University of Chicago, Crawford Texas, Robert Fogel, University of Chicago, Toni Preckwinkle, Kilimanjaro International, Hyde Park Historical Society, Hyde Park Obama, Hyde Park, Chicago Gentrification, Barack Obama, Chicago 2016, Chicago News

Hyde Park, a neighborhood that sets itself studiously apart, soon will be shoved into the international spotlight. With local resident Barack Obama h...

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Judge Mugged Near Obama's Home

Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Barack Obama, Judge Eileen Brewer, Eileen Brewer, Kenwood, Barack Obama House, Hyde Park, Obama Kenwood, Obama Hyde Park, Hyde Park Crime, Chicago News

The night before Election Day, a Cook County judge was mugged just blocks from Barack Obama's home in the Kenwood neighborhood. Judge Eileen Brewer, ...

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Getting to Work

Mike Bonifer | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Dignity, Work, Chicago, Studs Terkel, 2008 Election, Hyde Park, Communications, Barack Obama, Working, Worker, Ideals, Obama Victory, Obama Wins, Lets Get to Work, President Obama, Obama Work, Obama Administration, Recession, 2008 Presidential Election, Presidential Results, Obama Speech, Obama Presidency, Financial Crisis, Work Ethic, Business News
Mike Bonifer

Throughout the campaign, this idea of getting down to work told us what kind of person we'd be getting as President.

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City Referendums: Hyde Park Enacts Booze Ban, Lakefront Development Halted

Chi-Town Daily News | Peter Sachs | Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Edgwater, Chicago Referendum Results, Chicago Election Results, Northside Action for Justice, Chicago Referendums, Uptown, Hyde Park, Tifs, Chicago News

Voters in Uptown, Edgewater and Hyde Park approved advisory referendums dealing with housing and development issues by landslide margins yesterday. I...

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