Hyde Park, Chicago South side

- Chicago University, Hyde Park Blvd, E 57th St, Rockefeller Chapel, Robie House

Hyde Park is a district in Chicago's South side, to the South of downtown, on the shore of Lake Michigan. It is known for the campus of Chicago University, with its many interesting buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House and for being the neighbourhood where Barrack Obama lived before he became the president of the United States. Hyde Park is mainly a wealthy residential area with old beautiful townhouses, small streets and a lot of trees. The East part, however, there are more highrise condominiums, and Hyde Park is one of Chicago's most racially diverse neighbourhoods. It is also the most liberal, several workers paintings can be found in the train underpaths and it is known for its many bookstores. Hyde Park borders Kenwood and Washington Park.

Chicago University has an impressive collection of buildings, both modern and old ones. Regenstein Library is a brutalist library building from 1970. Just next to it is the glass oval The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library from 2011, that reminded me of a train tunnel station in Malmö.

There are several churches at the campus, the largest one is the gothic revival Rockefeller Chapel from 1928. Henry Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences is a cool brutalist building. Oriental Institute is an oriental arts museum situated in an old gothic building.

Museum of Industy and Science is situated in Hyde Park, on the border to downtown. It is an impressive and very popular museum, situated in a large neo-classic building. This is the only building that is left from the 1893 World Fair, called Palace of Fine Arts during the fair. It is the largest science museum in the Western hemisphere. We planned to visit it, but unfortunately we had too less time.

We visited Hyde Park on a really hot and sunny day, mainly to make a tour of Robie House, but we also made a short walk around the campus main buildings. To get there we had to take a metro to the Loop/downtown, and there change to a bus.

 

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