Page 103 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Chicago

CHIC A GO AREA B Y AREA  101

SOUTH SIDE

Settled in the mid-1800s as suburban pollution from nearby industry and the
estates, the South Side was soon encroachment of poorer neighborhoods
transformed when the 1893 World’s Fair, caused the wealthy to depart. By the 1950s,
held in Jackson Park, brought tourists, Kenwood and Hyde Park were in decline.
money, and real-estate and transit That same decade, the University of Chicago
development. Hyde Park in particular led a massive urban-renewal program.
experienced dramatic change, as the City’s Today, the area contains many classic Prairie
preparation for the fair led to an influx of School homes, superb museums, and two
Chicago’s elite. By the 1920s, however, of Chicago’s largest greenspaces.

Sights at a Glance
Historic Buildings Restaurants pp152–3
1 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel 1 Cedars Mediterranean
2 Robie House 2 La Petite Folie
5 University of Chicago 3 Medici On 57th St.
Quadrangles 4 Rajun Cajun
5 Salonica
Historic Districts 6 Valois
9 Hyde Park 7 Zaleski & Horvarth MarketCafé
0 Kenwood See also Street Finder
Museums maps 7 & 8
3 Oriental Institute Museum
4 Smart Museum of Art
8 DuSable Museum of African
American History
w Museum of Science and Industry
pp108–111
Parks 0 meters 500
6 Midway Plaisance 0 yards 500
7 Washington Park
q Jackson Park
150 yards
EAST 48TH STREET AVENUE KENWOOD SOUTH
EAST 49TH STREET SOUTH DORCHESTER AVENUE SOUTH CORNELL DRIVE
S KIMBARK AVE
EAST 50TH STREET S BLACKSTONE AVE
E MADISON S CORNELL AVE
PARK AVE SOUTH LAKE PARK AVENUE
SOUTH ELLIS AVENUE
SOUTH WOODLAWN AVE
SOUTH GREENWOOD AVE
EAST 51ST STREET EAST HYDE PARK BOULEVARD
SOUTH DREXEL BOULEVARD
EAST 52ND STREET SOUTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
E 52ND ST SOUTH ELLIS AVENUE S KENWO OD AVE
ELLSWORT H D R I V E P A YNE DRIVE E 53RD ST SOUTH DREXEL AVENUE SOUTH INGLESIDE AVENUE EAST 53RD STREET SOUTH DORCHESTER AVENUE SOUTH BLACKSTONE AVENUE SOUTH HARPER AVENUE 51st-53rd EAST 53RD ST
Street
WASHINGTON
PARK E 54TH ST SOUTH GREENWOOD AVENUE SOUTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE SOUTH CORNELL AVENUE SOUTH SHORE DRIV E
RAINEY DRIVE SOUTH COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE EAST 55TH STREET EAST 56TH STREET SOUTH WOODLAWN AVENUE SOUTH KIMBARK AVENUE SOUTH KENWOOD AVENUE E 55TH PL SOUTH LAKE PARK AVENUE EAST 56TH STREET
SOUTH HYDE PARK BOULEVARD
S EVERETT AVE
R U SSELL DRIVE EAST 58TH STREET EAST 58TH STREET SOUTH DORCHESTER AVENUE SOUTH BLACKSTONE AVENUE SOUTH HARPER AVE 57th Street EAST 57TH DRIVE
55th-56th-
MORGAN DRIVE
SOUTH ELLIS AVE
EAST 57TH STREET
S MARYLAND AVE
EAST 59TH STREET
PAYNE DRIVE 59th Street/ JACKSON
S STONY ISLAND AVE
MIDWAY PLAISANCE S CORNELL DR PARK
University
B E S T D R IVE
EAST 60TH STREET of Chicago
Lower cloister hall in the Chicago Theological Seminary, University of Chicago For keys to symbols see back flap
100-101_EW_Chicago.indd 101 13/07/16 3:00 pm