The University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library was constructed on the former location of Stagg Field in 1970.
Category Archives: History
Turn Turn Turn (Chris 10)
The lyrics to Pete Seeger‘s Turn Turn Turn come from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In 1965, The Byrds version of the song topped the charts.
Jimmy’s (James 7)
Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap opened in 1948. It was one of many Hyde Park bars at the time, and one of the few to survive urban renewal.
A Child of the Sun (Grandma 2)
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. He called it a Child of the Sun.
Hanah Jon Taylor (James 6)
In the 1980s, the superb flute and saxophone player Hanah Jon Taylor performed regularly at The Cove and the Hotel Del Prado in Hyde Park. In the 1990s he moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where in 2019 he opened Cafe Coda.
