ATDTDA (1): Hyde Park and Jackson Park

[Tim Strzechowski]

"The horse-drawn conveyance they had boarded took them throughthe swarming streets of southern Chicago [...] At length the car deposited them on a street corner from which, the conductor assured them, it would be but a short walk to the Fairgrounds -- or, as he chuckled, 'depending how late in the evening, a brisk run'." (p. 21)

Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, located seven miles south of the Chicago Loop. It is home to The DuSable Museum of African American History, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Museum of Science and Industry, The Renaissance Society, and the University of Chicago.
Hyde Park was founded by Paul Cornell in the 1850s near the Illinois Central Railroad south of Chicago. In 1861, the village of Hyde Park was incorporated, extending from 39th to 63rd Streets. The southern border was later extended as far as 138th Street. The community was organized as a township and was independent of Chicago until 1889.[1] As a township, the 1889 Hyde Park stretched from 39th Street south to 138th Street and as far west as State Street; but as a 21st century neighborhood, its definition has shrunk to a core area grouped closely around Cornell's development on 53rd Street and the lakefront. Today, the name Hyde Park is applied to the neighborhood from 51st Street ("Hyde Park Blvd.") to Midway Plaisance Blvd. or simply "The Midway." The neighborhood's eastern boundary is Lake Michigan and its western boundary is Washington Park. Some refer to the area between 47th Street and 51st Street ("E. Hyde Park Blvd.") as a part of Hyde Park, although this area is the south 
half of the Kenwood neighborhood. The Hyde Park Herald, a local newspaper, has covered neighborhood news since 1882. [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_Chicago
http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level2.asp?id=42
http://www.msichicago.org/info/hyde/index.html

Jackson Park is a 500 acre (2 km²) park on Chicago's South Side officially located at 6401 S. Stony Island Ave. in the Woodlawn community area. It extends into the South Shore and Hyde Park community areas, bordering Lake Michigan and several South Side neighborhoods. It is one of two Chicago Park District parks showing in a ChicagoParkDistrict.com search on Jackson Park, the other result being Mahalia Jackson Park in the community area of Auburn Gresham on the far southwest side of Chicago. [...]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Park_%28Chicago%29
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