Kenwood
The Anti-Renaissance Man: One Chicago teacher fights to save the city’s public schools
Education administrators in business suits are gathered, miniature complimentary bottles of San Pellegrino in hand. This is the “CPS Senior Staff Retreat,” and at the front of the Gleacher Center meeting room sits Ron Huberman, the newly-ordained CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, recently transferred by Mayor Daley from his position as the head... »
Hop on the Hope Bus
The Chicago Neighborhood Tours website boasts that Hyde Park and Kenwood are “where lakefront vistas, ancient history, architecture and Nobel Prizes meet.” Now that Senator Obama, who used to be the neighbor of thousands of proud South Side residents, has become President Obama, the tour company offers the opportunity to “admire distinctively designed dwellings... »
Of Beds and Breakfasts: Alternative lodgings on the mid-South Side
On November 4, a small group of Hyde Parkers voted the 5th Ward’s 39th precinct dry, effectively canceling plans to replace the decrepit Doctors Hospital with Hyde Park’s first real hotel. Fortunately, a host of alternative lodging options exist around the neighborhood. Why stay at the boring old Ramada at 49th and Lake Shore... »
Zaleski & Horvath
East 47th Street has had more closings than openings in recent years, but after a few exhausting months of preparation, Zaleski & Horvath MarketCafe opened last month to the delight of the neighborhood. Named after a couple of the owner’s grandparents, Z&H is a small storefront grocery with a deli counter and a few... »
In the Footsteps of Killers
Leave it to the University of Chicago to create a pair of Nietzsche-inspired murderers. Nearly eighty-five years ago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, graduate students at the University, committed the “perfect crime” on the streets of Kenwood, kidnapping and suffocating to death 14-year-old Bobby Franks. The deranged duo was caught soon after the murder,... »
Dawn of the Black Age: Graphic Novels and Cartoons Emerge at the Black Age of Comics
Last Saturday, Kenwood Academy—a typical high school with an auditorium and brick-lined hallways—hosted the tenth annual Black Age of Comics Convention. Artists set up tables and displays along the hallways, which would normally be clogged with students, and in the auditorium, where one would expect a podium from which a principal could address his... »
