HYDE PARK — The Washington Park Chamber of Commerce has invited nearly every official with anything to do with the neighborhood to a Saturday town hall meeting.
Local aldermen, state representatives and senators, congressmen and University of Chicago officials and planners for the Barack Obama presidential library have all been invited to a broad ranging discussion on the future of the neighborhood from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Gorham United Methodist Church, 5600 S. Indiana Ave.
Among the items up for discussion are the presidential library, which could be built in the neighborhood’s namesake park, crime, the soon-to-be-reopened Dyett High School, economic development and a memorandum of understanding with the university and other entities buying property in the neighborhood.
The University of Chicago has purchased large swathes of land along Garfield Boulevard and has promised some to the Obama library, but much of it is the subject of plans for arts resources and other unknown projects.
Cliff Kelly will moderate the discussion and organizers are asking that questions be submitted by Tuesday.
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