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Hyde Park, is located on the South Side of Chicago, in Illinois. It is home to the University of Chicago, the Museum of Science and Industry and several architecturally significant mansions. Paul Cornell founded Hyde Park in the 1850s.
 The Museum of Science and Industry Today, the name Hyde Park is officially applied to the neighborhood from 51st Street to the neighborhood around Midway Plaisance Boulevard or simply “The Midway”. The neighborhood’s eastern boundary is Lake Michigan and its western boundary is Washington Park. In the early 1890s, with the founding of The University of Chicago by John D. Rockefeller, Hyde Park emerged as a premier community. In 1893, Hyde Park was introduced to the world when it hosted the World’s Columbian Exposition. While the fair covered hundreds of acres, the only structure left today is Charles Atwood’s Palace of Fine Arts, which was converted into Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry in 1926. Hyde Park is known for it cultural diversity. Some of its notable Hyde Park residents have included: - Clarence Darrow
- Hugh Hefner
- Muhammad Ali
- Harold Washington
- Mahalia Jackson
- Barack Obama
The neighborhood contains buildings designed by such famous architects as Eero Saarinem, I.M. Pei, Mies van der Rohe, Rafael Vinoly, and Frank Lloyd Wright. To learn more about Hyde Park, visit The Hyde Park Historical Society at: http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/
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