Current Events and Hot Topics
In October and coming months the Conference will sponsor open forums and seminars of community interest: October 16 with Eli Ungar of Antheus Capital and MAC Properties Management. Antheus Capital & Mac Property: Their Impact on Hyde Park with guests Eli Ungar and Mac Property HPKCC invites Eli Ungar (Antheus Capital) and Mac Property Management to discuss with residents planned developments such as Windermere West, and the future impact of rental units recently purchased by Mac Property in Hyde Park-Kenwood. Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 pm, at Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 S. Kenwood. For background read our page on the subject. November 6: Condo Association Mortgages with John H. Bickley III, Atty. at Law with Kovitz Shifron Nesbit and with Bank Financial of Hyde Park. Tuesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m. at BankFinancial, 1354 E. 55th St. (at Kenwood Ave.). $10 HPKCC members, $20 others. Visit Condos and Co-ops Committee. December 5. A Forum and inaugural meeting of a NEW affordable housing initiative, Coalition for Equitable Community Development in Hyde Park-Kenwood. Wednesday, December 5, 7 pm at Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 S. Kenwood. HPKCC is one of the founding partners of this new advocacy and planning organization. Also: HPKCC Schools Committee, working on building afterschool programs and connections, next meets Wednesday October 24 7 pm at United Church, 1448 E. 53rd Blackstone entrance. October 17, 6 pm, the Committee hosts a block grants workshop for enrichment program providers and schools. At United Church, 1448 E. 53rd. After School Providers forum report with contacts is now up. Other happenings of note: October 11, Tuesday, 6-9 pm. Benefit wine tasting and tapas Gala for the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club at opening Asian-themed CHANT, 1509 E. 53rd St. $35 from HPNC. October 13. Mid South Education Forum 9 am-3 pm. Dyett Academic Center, 555 E. 51st Washington Park Council's Olympic Framework plan public consideration. Park Refectory. October 14. You Are Here-video history of neighborhoods and UC. 2 pm Neighborhood Club. Presented by Hyde Park Historical Society. Hyde Park Co-op Annual Meeting. 4 pm (registr. 3:30) Neighborhood Club, 5480 S. Kenwood. October 27, Saturday. 1st Annual Neighborhood Club Wellness Fair, Healthy Mind + Body = Healthy You. For community members, health professionals & civic and senior-focused organizations interested in proactive health. The day will include a brain health plenary with leading experts, lunch (please request), hearing, diabetes, and muscle maintenance breakout workshops, and a closing panel about a Lifetime of Health. Contact Jessica Blake at Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 773 643-4062 x156 or jtblake@hpnclub.org. 5480 S. Kenwood. October 28, Saturday. Gargoyle Gallop race benefits Blue Gargoyle Service Center. All day Chicago Humanities Festival local conference, The Climate of Concern. November 19, 7 pm. 53rd St. TIF Advisory Council meeting moved to this date. Full and important agenda. Public attendance urged. Neighborhood Club, 5480 S. Kenwood. Heavy "doomsday" cuts in transit service and fare hikes are postponed to November 4 (39 routes include the 3X, 4X, 28X (affecting the #6) and 55X, A, N--we believe eroding the progress made over the past 10 years), with more cuts to come in January. Meanwhile the media is filled reports on terrible maintenance and state of transit/transportation in Illinois. Congratulations to Cleanslate program on a great job. Read about it. HPKCC, others in neighborhoods around the proposed Olympic stadium in Washington Park, are meeting with the 2016 Olympic Committee. A small HPKCC delegation met with the Park District August 21. Stressed was neighbors' serious questions and need to go the communities very soon. Read about Olympics in our area, viewpoints, and our meeting. See HPKCC's submitted questions and concerns. Harper Court: The assessment is done and the city is preparing a November release of Qualifications for respondents to a future RFP. Meanwhile, there is the potential window of a public design seminar and charette this fall by an outside professional organization on such larger retail developments--what communities want that will work--that could include Harper Court. HPKCC's Harper Court forums spring 2006 generated many ideas and a set of principles, endorsed by HPKCC board that we hold must not be lost sight of: continue to include the original small business purpose, take care of current tenants, have a public process on development, and have a more broadly based board and oversight of the assets from sale. HPKCC Harper Court Reports online, Ideas and Principles, Promontory Point: design funds, preservation standard passed the U.S. House in April. Latest Details See Scope of Work for Preservation-based independent review. Read HPKCC thoughts, letters and reports on the Point. Doings: visit Cultural Calendar, Community Events, Of Civic/Social/ Personal learning Interest, Community Meetings, Spiritual Affairs. We welcome your ideas: Send them to George Rumsey
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Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference
	Recent board actions, reports, information, about HPKCC Get your Reporter by first class mail by joining the Conference. View the August 2007 Reporter in pdf. Find features in their topic contexts. April 2007 Reporter issue: Read it all in typed text or find out what's inside and where in this site features can be read. Read newly elected board member bios. HPKCC News. Membership Form. History. Our action committees and task forces are moving ahead, and new ones are emerging. Here are what some have been doing. Read also reports on Harper Court and future of the Co-op. See our White Paper of findings from "What's Right, What's Wrong about Hyde Park?" in the "What's Right.." page. Watch for coming forum on retail for the neighborhood. Public safety and civility challenges. Views from the Conference. Visit also our pages on Crime, Public Safety and Business and Teens. Learn about our WhistleSTOP program, where to get whistles-get involved in the new community safety action program. Printable flyer. The Schools Committee is engaging with local school councils and working to increase resident participation and ownership in our schools. See Schools Committee page. Find out how to engage with the new Academic Games League partnered with U of C Service Center. See report on our forum/assembly March 28, "After school Matters in Hyde Park, " including presenters' contacts. Many providers and an Assets Based modeler presented thoughts and facts on what's available to our kids as constructive options that will give them the experiences and assets they will need as adults. Contact Nancy Baum. nbbaum@sbcglobal.net. Larger list of providers (in progress). The committee holds a workshop for program providers, principals, teachers on block grant application, with Daisy Lezama of Chicago Department of Children and Youth Services. Wednesday, October 17, 6 pm at United Church of Hyde Park, 1448 E. 53rd St. (Blackstone entrance). Reserve with Nancy Baum, nbbaum@sbcglobal.net, 773 288-5464. Next Committee meeting October 24, 7 pm, in United Church of Hyde Park, 1448 E. 53rd St. Use Blackstone entry. After school continues to be our focus. Next board meeting: 11/02/07 (1st Thursdays), 4th Floor, Hyde Park Bank, 7 pm.
HPKCC Programs and News
	Considerations on affordability. Read resolution and report from the May 19 2007 forum; About the forming organization. City set-aside ordinance. Apr. '06 forum.
	The Chicago Academic Games League [CAGL] is a teacher/parent collaboration, a program merging substantive math with athletic models of teams, games, and tournaments. Each year, from October through April, students and teachers from Chicago public schools around the city meet once each month for a Saturday tournament. Schools are self selecting; teachers and parents are volunteers; students participate of their own volition - not for grades or credit. The program is geared to grades 5 through 8, and the core of the games is pre-algebra.
	Condos and Coops Governance Issues forums. Classes continue with Atty. John H. Bickley III of Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit. Watch for the next in winter or spring 2007. Next seminar, on association financing, will be held November 6. Since you need to know: High-rise Life-Safety Ordinance. New Zoning Ordinance
	Harper Court to be sold? HPKCC positions. Ideas. Co-op Business Climate Development and related Public Policy issues (navigator to pages) Developing Neighborhood Goals. TIF News. Hyde Park (Harper) Theater- See RFP guidelines, as well as the decision. Future Plans: Heating up with condo, high rise plans Development home. Several new developments coming to 53rd, north. See also Developments-details and analysis Doctors Hospital 53rd Mobil 56th Cornell Village Center Shoreland plans U of C South Campus Plan UC long range plans Lake Park, Metra embankments, viaducts /murals: Streetscape Committee questions plans. City Council watch: Substitute high-rise sprinkler ordinance passed for commercial buildings only. Placed on "hold" by Ald. Hairston, others until reasonable implementation can be worked out. Latest on Tax appeals, assessment cap, waiver from re-filing for exemption. Developments eyed, and dropped. Harper Theater decision, reports. Report on the July 9 TIF meeting. On immediate watch: Drs Hospital, 53rd Mobil, Harper Court and more.
	The Hyde Park Disabilities Task Force will meet remains busy on several fronts. A multi-organization initiative. Its Business Information Packet. Join: George Rumsey.
	Our newest committee is Sustainable Environmental Action Task Force. To get involved contact Vijayarani Fedson. Committee page.
	More information, reports on trends in our community: HPKCC's forum October 2006: "The Future of the Co-Op." What's Right/Wrong with Hyde Park HPKCC 2005 forum.
	The members of the Garden Fair have started planning for the 2007-08 winter lecture series called "Garden Inspirations." Watch the Garden Fair website for details.
	Dedication of the Gym (with pics) April 3, 2004 About Bird of Peace and its March 19 2005 rededication. More at cosmosegg@ameritech.net. The Plaza Paved-what NPAC asked and got. Beds as under constr. 2005 4th on 53rd pics. Past4th on 53rd pics. Report, pics on U of C service day- Nichols 9/23 Next NPAC meeting Thursday, Oct. 11, 7 pm-Nichols Park Fieldhouse, with Park District.. Next workday in Meadow or formal garden is ... Fall programs are full! and such a bargain!
	Visit Park Issues. Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics was advanced in April 2007 by the U.S. Committee. New: Rebuilding our parks. Visit Recreation Resources. Green resources. The restored Model Yacht Basin, with V. Ferrari's Ecstasy in Harold Washington Park was dedicated September 29 by Mayor Daley. Some of what was asked by parks and users at the preliminary hearings. Park District site link to dates: http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/events.results/object_id/67ef5802-3f67-405e-aaaa-59c9b1aae989.cfm The Parks Committee's letter on the Olympics. More info and views, positions staked out. Jackson Park hears from the Chicago 2016 Committee Sept. 10, 7:30, 6401 S. Stony Is. Public invited. Park volunteer workdays have started again. Burnham: 1st Sat mornings (but call because of conflicts-gw.davis@ezi.net). Jackson 2nd and 4th Sat 10-2 from Darrow Bridge- 773 486-0505. Park council and aldermanic area requests for area parks for 2007 and where to see the budget. Park Advisory Councils (meeting schedule in Parks) HPKCC-hosted website, services: JPAC/Jackson Park, Burnham Sanctuary.
	Preservation groups form in HP. Landmark district under active discussion. Ways to apply for national register and city designation, tax advantages. Frequently asked questions. Plans for Doctors Hospital redevelopment at 5800 S. Stony Island proved to be controversial. Read about it in Doctors Hospital page- plans, reactions, July 23 meeting reports, and expressions of community concerns and an alternative plan. There might well be a Hyde Park historic district. Block discussions with Ald. Hairston and the city show substantial support. Take this website's poll. Doctors Hospital. Giordano's in Preservation Beat. Fountain of Time Basin Committee seeks more funds. Greenwood Row Houses and 63rd Bathing Pavilion granted landmarks designation December, 2004. Narraganset wins state National Registry approval. HPHS Pres. Comm. nominated 10 local sites for landmarking. Don't miss Trish Morse's virtual tour of the Midway Plaisance and adjoining UC buildings, then and now. Learn about Robie House restoration project. See our history, preservation pages for latest happenings and significance. Preservation Beat, Preservation Hot Topics Urban Renewal and Timelines.
	HPKCC Schools Committee. Read Reports including on the recent public forum on the State of the Schools in Hyde Park and Kenwood and of Committee initiatives. Schools Committee meets as announced. Next October 24, 7 pm. at United Church, 1448 E. 53rd (Blackstone entry). October 17, Wednesday, 6 pm. The committee holds a workshop for program providers, principals, teachers on block grant application, with Daisy Lezama of Chicago Department of Children and Youth Services. Wednesday, October 17, 7? pm at United Church of Hyde Park, 1448 E. 53rd St. (Blackstone entrance). Reserve with Nancy Baum, nbbaum@sbcglobal.net, 773 288-5464.
	The HPKCC Transit and Mobility Task Force. Visit the Task Force homepage and its Transit web pages. TIF Parking Committee bus. distr. recommendations, including a Transportation Enhancement (parking) district.
	Hyde Park Co-op Used Book Sale. Thanks to all for a great sale, managed this year (October 6-8) by HPKCC as a fund-raiser for our programs.
	Learn about HPKCC's WhistleSTOP and community safety action program. Visit also our concerns and actions in Community Safety. Tips for staying safe are in Public Safety and CAPS beat. Latest Crime/Robberies: 2006 had the lowest incidence of violent crime in recent and many years and well below citywide average. 21st District had largest drop in violent crimes for 2007 1st 7 months: 22%. There are still brazen strong-arm robberies and murders, incidents of teens against adults, and at times increased burglaries . Alerts issued to people walking alone on any of various streets through the neighborhood. U of C alert list serves: http://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/safety-awareness. Also: security email alerts, type "subscribe aware". Visit also http://commonsense.uchicago.edu/
Other Neighborhood Partners
	Blackstone Branch Library: Programs (CPL). Friends of Blackstone Library meet first Wednesdays, 6 pm- call Dina Weinstein 773 643-6045. Help with globe restoration. 4904 S. Lake Park. Kids' and book clubs, author programs, joint with Hyde Park Art Center too. Library 312 474-0511. Celebrating 100! Support the Friends: Buy a T-Shirt! Friends of Blackstone helps the 57th St. Children's Book Fair September 16 and the Co-op Used Book Sale in October. Blue Gargoyle: More about this growing service provider. New home, 5638 S. Woodlawn. Due to the uncertainties of government funding, the Gargoyle is raising $575,o00 over 3 years. Volunteer tutors always needed. Next fund raisers: Hyde Park Historical Society: At and about HPHS. Annual dinner February 27. Hyde Park Neighborhood Club: New programs (773) 743-4062. Adult drop-in includes U C Service League Games Day (1st Weds 9:30-11:30 am). The Club is seeking financial help to defray unexpected costs while keeping momentum going. It has a new executive director, Peter Cassel. Our Neighborhood Club material is in the NC page and in News from Collaborers Visit their website for full schedule and descriptions. Ward meetings: 4th on 4th Saturdays- call 773 536-8103. 5th War meeting on 4th Tuesdays- call 773 324-5555. 20th 2nd Saturdays call 773 955-5610. All have special late hours for advice and services. Call their offices. More about our many co-laborers in the community and visit our Community Resources, Good Neighbors, Help Line, and Neighborhood Nonprofits pages.
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