A report on Chicago and Hyde Park, Chicago

Traditional Potawatomi regalia on display at the Field Museum of Natural History

An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

Engraving of the Hyde Park Water Works, 1882

Court of Honor at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893

In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition was held in Hyde Park and Woodlawn.

Men outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression (1931)

The southwestern part of Hyde Park serves as the campus of the University of Chicago

Looking east along South Shore Drive near 55th St. in Hyde Park (aka East Hyde Park)

Protesters in Grant Park outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention

U.S. President Barack Obama has lived near Hyde Park for more than twenty years.

Downtown and the North Side with beaches lining the waterfront

Nuclear Energy, a sculpture by Henry Moore marking the site of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor.

The courtyard of the Hyde Park Shopping Center

The Chicago Building (1904–05) is a prime example of the Chicago School, displaying both variations of the Chicago window.

The University of Chicago as seen from the Midway Plaisance, a wide boulevard connecting Jackson Park and Washington Park.

Replica of Daniel Chester French's Statue of the Republic at the site of the World's Columbian Exposition

The Robie House, a National Historic Landmark designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908.

Downtown Chicago and the Chicago River during January 2014 cold wave

The Rockefeller Chapel, located on the University of Chicago campus and named after University of Chicago founder John D. Rockefeller.

Map of racial distribution in Chicago, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, founded by the prominent educational reformer John Dewey in 1896.

The Hampton House, a condominium located on the property that once housed the Hyde Park House (Hyde Park's first hotel). In the 1980s, the Hampton House was home to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington.

The National Hellenic Museum in Greektown is one of several ethnic museums comprising the Chicago Cultural Alliance.

A monument marking the location of the first kiss between Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, located on the corner of 53rd Street and Dorchester Avenue.

Osaka Garden, a Japanese garden in Jackson Park.

The spire of the Copernicus Center is modeled on the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

Downtown Chicago and lakefront condominiums in Hyde Park as seen from the northern side of Promontory Point.

Ferries offer sightseeing tours and water-taxi transportation along the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.

The Magnificent Mile hosts numerous upscale stores, as well as landmarks like the Chicago Water Tower.

Carl Sandburg's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/ Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/ Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive on the South Side

Daley Plaza with Picasso statue, City Hall in background. At right, the Daley Plaza Building contains the state law courts.

When it was opened in 1991, the central Harold Washington Library appeared in Guinness World Records as the largest municipal public library building in the world.

The University of Chicago, as seen from the Midway Plaisance

WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station.

The former Harpo Studios in West Loop, Chicago was home of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and other Harpo Production operations until 2015.

Aerial photo of the Jane Byrne Interchange, opened in the 1960s

Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States.

Amtrak train on the Empire Builder route departs Chicago from Union Station

Prentice Women's Hospital on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital Downtown Campus

Hyde Park is the 41st of the 77 community areas of Chicago.

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Chicago is also home to the Barack Obama Presidential Center being built in Hyde Park on the city's South Side.

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South Side, Chicago

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A typical Chicago Bungalow, examples of which are found in abundance on the South Side.

Ida Wells lived in the Ida Wells House, a Chicago Landmark in the Bronzeville historic district.

The intersection of East 35th Street and South Giles Avenue, 1973. Photo by John H. White.

Last Robert Taylor Home, 2005, since demolished

The South Side is an area of Chicago, Illinois, U.S. It lies south of the city's Loop area in the downtown.

South Side neighborhoods such as Armour Square, Back of the Yards, Bridgeport, and Pullman host more blue collar and middle-class residents, while Hyde Park, the Jackson Park Highlands District, Kenwood, Beverly, Mount Greenwood, and west Morgan Park range from middle class to more affluent residents.

1893 World's Fair Court of Honor and Grand Basin in Jackson Park

Jackson Park (Chicago)

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The Statue of The Republic in Jackson Park is a replica of Daniel Chester French's "The Republic", but is ⅓ the size of the original.

The Garden of the Phoenix in Chicago's Jackson Park, with a view of the Museum of Science and Industry

Jackson Park is a 551.5 acre park located on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

As part of the Woodlawn community area, it extends along Lake Michigan and borders onto the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and South Shore.

University of Chicago

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An early convocation ceremony at the University of Chicago.

Some of the University of Chicago team that worked on the production of the world's first human-caused self-sustaining nuclear reaction, including Enrico Fermi in the front row and Leó Szilárd in the second.

View of university building from the Harper Quadrangle.

Many older buildings of the University of Chicago employ Collegiate Gothic architecture like that of the University of Oxford. For example, Chicago's Mitchell Tower (left) was modeled after Oxford's Magdalen Tower (right).

The University of Chicago Main Quadrangles, looking north.

Harper Memorial Library was dedicated in 1912 and its architecture takes inspiration from various colleges in England.

Eckhart Hall houses the university's math department.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, a private day school run by the university.

Aerial view of Fermilab, a science research laboratory co-managed by the University of Chicago.

University of Chicago building during fall.

Saieh Hall for Economics, housing the Department of Economics and the Becker Friedman Institute.

The university's Reynolds Club, the student center.

Max Palevsky Residential Commons, a dormitory completed in 2001 designed by postmodernist Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta.

Qwazy Quad Rally, Scav Hunt 2005, item #38.

Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1947.

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Milton Friedman in 2004.

The archway between Bond Chapel and Swift Hall, home of the university's Divinity School

Snell-Hitchcock, an undergraduate dormitory constructed in the early 20th century, is part of the Main Quadrangles.

Rockefeller Chapel, constructed in 1928, was designed by Bertram Goodhue in the neo-Gothic style.

The Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences was built in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://photofiles.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf2-03501.xml|title=Henry Hinds Laboratory Architect's Drawings|publisher=University of Chicago Archival Photographic Files|access-date=September 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617140204/http://photofiles.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf2-03501.xml|archive-date=June 17, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, opened in 2003 and designed by Cesar Pelli, houses the volleyball, wrestling, swimming, and basketball teams.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://athletics.uchicago.edu/facilities/ratner-overview.htm|title=Overview|publisher=The University of Chicago|access-date=October 10, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080616150245/http://athletics.uchicago.edu/facilities/ratner-overview.htm |archive-date = June 16, 2008}}</ref>

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi ) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.

View of Collegiate Gothic architecture of The University of Chicago, taken looking northwest from the grassy, tree-lined Midway.

Midway Plaisance

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A view of the memorial on the Midway to Thomas Masaryk by sculptor Albin Polasek, represented as a legendary Knight of Blanik

Maps showing the Midway Plaisance (black rectangle) between Washington Park to the west (left) and Jackson Park. (Chicago Park District is in green, University of Chicago in yellow background)

Spires of English Gothic buildings of The University of Chicago campus overlooking the tree-lined, grassy Midway Plaisance; view looking northeast.

Linnaeus statue near the University of Chicago campus on the Midway

The Midway Plaisance, known locally as the Midway, is a public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

It divides the Hyde Park community area to the north from the Woodlawn community area to the south.

World's Columbian Exposition

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Advertisement for the Exposition, depicting a portrait of Christopher Columbus

Thomas Moran – Chicago World's Fair – Brooklyn Museum painting of the Administration Building

Final vote in the United States House of Representatives on location of the 1893 World's Fair

Aerial view of the exposition at Jackson Park in a print by F.A. Brockhaus

Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Sr. delivers a speech to crowd during "American Cities Day" at the exposition on October 28, 1893. Harrison would be assassinated later that day.

“Columbian Exposition” of 1892 book cover art

Stereoscopic image of the Great Krupp Building

Apart from official nation displays, non-white cultures were largely excluded from the main park and were instead found on the Midway.

Golden Arch at Louis Sullivan's Transportation Building

Electricity was used to decorate the buildings with incandescent lights, illuminate fountains, and power three huge spotlights.

Westinghouses' World's Fair presentation explaining Tesla's AC induction motors and high frequency experiments

Mammoth and Giant Octopus, display at the Columbian World's Fair, 1893

In 1923, notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again.

alt=Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria replicas.|Pinta, Santa María, and Niña replicas from Spain.

alt=Viking, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship.|The Viking, a replica of the Gokstad ship.

alt=White City fire|After the fair, the White City on fire.

The Administration Building and Grand Court during the October 9, 1893, commemoration of the 22nd anniversary of the Chicago Fire.

The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, seen from the southwest.

Horticultural Building, with Illinois Building in the background.

A view toward the Peristyle from Machinery Hall.

Frederick MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain.

"Canal of Venice" during Chicago World's Fair 1893

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The Fisheries Building at the Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492.

The exposition was located in Jackson Park and on the Midway Plaisance on 630 acre in the neighborhoods of South Shore, Jackson Park Highlands, Hyde Park, and Woodlawn.

Barack Obama

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American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, (L to R) mid-1970s in Honolulu

Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).

Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, 2009

Obama playing in a pickup game on the White House basketball court, 2009

The Obamas worship at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., January 2013

State Senator Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998

Results of the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois; Obama won the counties in blue.

Official portrait of Obama as a member of the United States Senate

Obama and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian facility for dismantling mobile missiles (August 2005)

Obama on stage with wife and daughters just before announcing presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007

2008 electoral vote results. Obama won 365–173.

2012 electoral vote results. Obama won 332–206.

Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2009

Obama delivers a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009.

Obama visits an Aurora shooting victim at University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.

The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on the evening of the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, June 26, 2015.

US employment statistics (unemployment rate and monthly changes in net employment) during Obama's tenure as U.S. president

Obama at a 2010 briefing on the BP oil spill at the Coast Guard Station Venice in Venice, Louisiana

Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010.

Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income and federal poverty level, under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014 (Source: CRS)

Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: JAMA)

June 4, 2009 − after his speech A New Beginning at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama participates in a roundtable interview in 2009 with among others Jamal Khashoggi, Bambang Harymurti and Nahum Barnea.

Obama with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, January 2015.

Obama meets with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, October 2016.

Meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron during the 2010 G20 Toronto summit

Obama after a trilateral meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right), White House Cabinet Room, May 2009

Obama meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office, May 2009

President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015.

Obama and members of the national security team receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. See also: Situation Room

Obama talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2013.

President Obama meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Panama, April 2015

Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2015.

G8 leaders watching the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

Obama with his then-new successor Donald Trump and his later successor Joe Biden, at the former's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Obama playing golf with the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, October 2017

Obama and his wife Michelle at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Job growth during the presidency of Obama compared to other presidents, as measured as a cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of his term

First official portrait of Barack Obama as President of the United States, 2009

Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.

Obama and Donald Trump, January 20, 2017

After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago.

In 2005, the Obama family applied the proceeds of a book deal and moved from a Hyde Park, Chicago condominium to a $1.6million house (equivalent to $million in ) in neighboring Kenwood, Chicago.

Washington Park (Chicago park)

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Washington Park (formerly Western Division of South Park, also Park No. 21) is a 372 acre park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, (originally known as "Grand Boulevard") located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr. in the Washington Park community area on the South Side of Chicago.

Washington Park was conceived by Paul Cornell, a Chicago real estate magnate who had founded the adjoining town of Hyde Park.

The lagoon south of the Museum of Science and Industry

Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

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Interior Of Palace Of Fine Arts — Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition

Museum of Science and Industry from 1700 East 56th Street

A U-505 flattened U.S. penny from the MSI

A tractor from a Mold-A-Rama machine at the museum

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.

Kenwood, Chicago

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The headquarters of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH

Kenwood, one of Chicago's 77 community areas, is on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of the city.

The Hyde Park community area is to the south of Kenwood and the southern half of Kenwood (south of 47th Street) is sometimes referred to as Hyde Park-Kenwood.

Barack Obama Presidential Center

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The Barack Obama Presidential Center is a planned architectural project in Chicago to commemorate the presidency of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.

Barack Obama has a home in Hyde Park.