Hyde Park

Hyde Park encompasses 51st Street to the neighborhood around the Midway Plaisance (between 59th and 60th). The neighborhood's eastern boundary is Lake Michigan and its western boundary is Washington Park.

User Votes: 792

Hyde Park is much more than the neighborhood that nurtured a president. Places like the University of Chicago and the Museum of Science and Industry help make it one of the most diverse and cultural enclaves in Chicago. Stroll down 53rd Street and eat well, shop to your heart’s content, or simply gaze at some of the most architecturally beautiful homes in the city. It’s a land of free thinkers with a spirit of activism, so it's no surprise that the seeds for change that energized an entire country were rooted here.

  • NAME Hyde Park is not at all "integrated." While it may be racially diverse, the fact is that it, like Lincoln Park, is full of mostly upper-middle class, pretentious people. We always seem to talk about diversity vis-a-vis race, but never socioeconomic status. Also, if we were to solely look at race, we would see that most of the white people in Hyde Park live in one area (i.e. the "golden triangle, as it is called) while Afric ... MORE > Sunday, Dec 12 at 5:58 PM
  • NAME hyde park sucks. Sunday, Sep 27 at 10:44 PM
  • Natalie LOL at JJ's comment. Hilarious Tuesday, Jun 9 at 5:48 PM
  • Natalie Hyde Park has EVERYTHING. Lincoln Park is the sterotypical North side neighborhood. Cubs fans and white people. Tuesday, Jun 9 at 5:47 PM
  • PooBear We'd beat them in a fight and come home to find parking. Thursday, Apr 2 at 1:00 PM