Neighborhood Links and Resources

Neighborhood Web and Blog Links and some print

A service of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference and its website www.hydepark.org. To add or correct hpkcc@aol.com attn: Gary Ossewaarde. Join HPKCC and help build a caring community and build this website.

To Community Organizations/Nonprofits Guide (Arts, Business, Civic, Social and Other Service, Resources for Neighborhoods and Nonprofits) Community Resources. Help Line. Good Neighbor Guide. Be sure to see the many links in Cultural and Arts Resources.
To Calendars and Directories for in-site navigation to full suite of special site resource links by topic such as schools, transportation, parks.
Shortcut to listing/links for University of Chicago websites. UC Calendar website. 2nd link.
Shortcut to listserves and blogs.

This site, www.hydepark.org, maintained by and a program of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference, is the most extensive and comprehensive resource for Chicago's Hyde Park and Kenwood neighborhoods, both in material and as a major gateway to useful site links. The main topic portals and links to current-new pages are in the Neighborhood Index (click button on left or the home page). Visit the Committees button for more. Many of the topic portals are themselves extensive webs. Among such are the sites we maintain for our affiliate committees including Academic Games, Garden Fair and Nichols Park and for Jackson Park Advisory Councils. About our website. Contact: hpkcc@aol.com. Site administrator: George Rumsey. U of C sites. Blogs.

The Hyde Park Herald's revamped website, (www.hpherald.com) gives the week's stories and caches much more, especially the large number of letters on the Point. It also has a search engine to neighborhood websites, including this site.
Other very good sites (find below) include those of the University, Blue Gargoyle, Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, and the Maroon.

An evolving general site on programs and offerings on the South Side, especially arts is a sub site of the U of C Humanities Civic Knowledge website (see below): South Side Chicago: http://southside.uchicago.edu. We suggest also that you subscribe to the Civic Knowledge (UC) listserve: from http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu. To listserve url.

While this site, hydepark.org, has a large archive of park photos, a good outside source for the neighborhood is in YoChicago.com, along with some limited by interesting and revealing blog vignettes of the neighborhood.

Elected Officials and government service offices contains website and e-mail addresses and links, including to the aldermen, state representatives, and congressmen.

The University of Chicago website (revamped site in beta testing)

http://uchicago.edu or http://www.uchicago.edu. The largest webplex based in our neighborhood is that of The University of Chicago. This source is often difficult to use as addresses have to be exactly right—with or without prefixes, some starting with name prefixes such as humanities.uchicago.edu/. Look in the site for keywords "docs", "maps", "masterplan", "thingstodo", etc. Using the browses and searches-- and attempting several pull up tries-- may be your best bet. Some of its many important pages that may be useful to neighborhood residents are linked from our Cultural and Community Organizations, Cultural and Arts Resources, Educational Resources, , and Religious Organizations pages. Some other UC pages are:

Here are some key University of Chicago urls (not all in the main site): (visit our pages including Cultural Resources for many more).

Hyde Park Cultural Alliance: cultural-leaders@listhost.uchicago.edu
http://www.courttheatre.org
http://music.uchicago.edu concert-office@uchicago.edu http://chicagopresents.uchicago.edu
http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu smart-information@uchicago.edu
http://ut.uchicago.edu (University Theater) http://off-off.uchicago.edu (Off-Off Campus improv)
http://uballet.uchicago.edu

University of Chicago International and Area Studies Multimedia and Outreach Source:
http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu. Programs of an international or regional nature, especially at International House can be streamed or downloaded there.

U of C Listhosts including Civic Knowledge Project https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/civicknowledge or
http://civicknowledge.uchicago.edu,
http://southside.uchicago.edu (Southside Arts & Humanities Network)
University of Chicago, Sustainable Partners of Civic Knowledge Project: http://lucien.uchicago.edu/blogs/sustainpartners/

Among the sites of other institutions in the neighborhood (see the hydepark.org pages listed above), the largest is that of the Museum of Science and Industry, www.msichicago.org. It has a community section. The Hyde Park Historical Society website is becoming increasingly essential and powerful. Also those of Hyde Park Neighborhood Club and Hyde Park Art Center. See also business sites such as Co-op Markets, Hyde Park Bank, University Bank. (To give the url for one is to need to list a hundred; many are in the directory or website of the Hyde Park Chamber of Commerce, http://www.hpchamber.com.)

Major or helpful organizational and other websites in the neighborhood and nearby (Help us build this directory):

 

Site and e-mail non existent or not yet identified:

Other blog-interactive sites and listserves, bulletins, general sites, and e-groups in and near Hyde Park

A few beyond-the-neighborhood general sites that are resources for neighborhood-building

A more complete guide, with links, is in Guide to Community Nonprofits (navigate to bottom). See in the webs and pages of www.hydepark.org cited above e.g. Parks, Transit, Zoning
Go to government sources, especially City of Chicago: www.cityofchicago.org Navigate from the home page or type in department or subject titles. Those below are some HPKCC regularly consults and receives news and bulletins from. Visit also