Hyde Park Update: The Checkerboard Lounge

Alderman Preckwinkle and the Hyde Park TIF Advisory Council invite you a community meeting on Monday May 10, 2004, 7 PM @ the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 S. Kenwood.
Highlights of the meeting will include an announcement by Hank Webber of the University of Chicago regarding future tenants for the building that formerly housed Women's Workout World and Hyde Park Pet. The University of Chicago has a signed lease with the internationally renown Checkerboard Lounge! Live music in Hyde Park. Blues and Jazz...
And if you are not into music..there is always food. The other tenant in the building will be a new restaurant owned by Jerry Kleiner (owner of Vivo, Marche, Gioco, Opera and Saiki). As you may know, he has a reputation as a restaurant impresario. He seeks out new and cutting edge locales. Kleiner is proposing a new concept for the Hyde Park location.

Now is the time to protest! The University should not be taking over this historic place and moving it miles away from its original locale. This important Bronzeville establishment needs to be kept in Bronzeville, not Hyde Park.

For more information:
Checkerboard Lounge question and consequences for intercommunity and University-community relations
Friends of the Checkerboard Lounge