Hyde Park Child Care
Living a life of a household of four could be challenging if the family’s social class is a lower middle class. However, it is a great place to live if the family is part of the higher middle class or upper. The price of housing is approximately $50,000 more than Chicago and $100,000 more than Illinois. Besides that, the cost of living is 19% higher than Chicago and 18% higher than national average. Therefore, Hyde Park is a pretty high class area! There are various child care around Hyde Park, which includes non-profit child care organization which gives a family a good number of options to choose from. More to that if a family wants to send their children to a public district school instead of private schools, they have five choices to choose from at Hyde Park. Those are Ray Elementary School, Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School, Philip Murray School, Hyde Park Academy High
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School and Kozminski Community Academy.
Hyde Park is one of the top 10 neighborhoods to stay in Illinois. It is safer than 81% of the cities in Illinois and 1 in 44 chance of being a victim. Therefore, Hyde Park is a great place to raise children. One of the reasons it is a safe neighborhood is because of the University of Chicago, one of the prestigious universities in the United States is located at the Hyde Park. Also, when my group and I went there, we realized that the community gives significant amount of importance for the greeneries and cleanliness. Hyde Park is known for its parks and recreation, friendly neighborhood, safety, medical facilities, and restaurants.
However, some drawbacks are parking, cost of living, rental value, gym and fitness. This data is based on the opinions of Hyde Park residents at streetadvisor.com. There are lots of amenities scattered through Hyde Park as well, such as groceries (Zaleski & Horvath Market Café, Whole Foods, and Valley of Jordan Food) , coffee shop (Starbucks, Dollop Coffee Co. and Cobb Coffee shop), restaurants, parks, shopping, decent number of fitness center, and many more.
There are 15 parks in totals around Hyde Park for the residents to enjoy. Some of them are Jackson Park, Botany Pond, Osaka Garden, and South Winter Garden. Almost all of them are well maintained by the community. Since Hyde Park is home to many U of C students, the place is very happening. Therefore, there are a good number of events that occur in the park, such as Hyde Park Garden Fair, 57th Street Art Fair, Hyde Park Sidewalk Sale, and many more. These are the list of events that happens throughout the
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The public transportation is pretty accessible at Hyde Park, particularly downtown Hyde Park. “The Metra Electric District line of Chicago’s Metra commuter rail serves downtown Hyde Park. Hyde Park stations include the 51st/53rd Street Station, the 55th-56th-57th Street Station, and the 59th Street, University of Chicago Station.” Besides that, there CTA bus lines as well that are accessible to go the downtown Chicago. My group and I used the CTA bus, which went in express saved so much of our time.
Also, there are no problems of finding pharmacies and health care centers at Hyde Park. University of Chicago has its hospitals, which serves the Hyde Park community. There are a couple of clinics and hospitals, such as MinuteClinic and AHF Healthcare Center that the residents can get hold of. Walgreens, CVS, Max Care, etc. are all accessible as well. Overall, a whole-rounded neighborhood to live, if the family is wealthy enough.
School and Kozminski Community Academy.
Hyde Park is one of the top 10 neighborhoods to stay in Illinois. It is safer than 81% of the cities in Illinois and 1 in 44 chance of being a victim. Therefore, Hyde Park is a great place to raise children. One of the reasons it is a safe neighborhood is because of the University of Chicago, one of the prestigious universities in the United States is located at the Hyde Park. Also, when my group and I went there, we realized that the community gives significant amount of importance for the greeneries and cleanliness. Hyde Park is known for its parks and recreation, friendly neighborhood, safety, medical facilities, and restaurants.
However, some drawbacks are parking, cost of living, rental value, gym and fitness. This data is based on the opinions of Hyde Park residents at streetadvisor.com. There are lots of amenities scattered through Hyde Park as well, such as groceries (Zaleski & Horvath Market Café, Whole Foods, and Valley of Jordan Food) , coffee shop (Starbucks, Dollop Coffee Co. and Cobb Coffee shop), restaurants, parks, shopping, decent number of fitness center, and many more.
There are 15 parks in totals around Hyde Park for the residents to enjoy. Some of them are Jackson Park, Botany Pond, Osaka Garden, and South Winter Garden. Almost all of them are well maintained by the community. Since Hyde Park is home to many U of C students, the place is very happening. Therefore, there are a good number of events that occur in the park, such as Hyde Park Garden Fair, 57th Street Art Fair, Hyde Park Sidewalk Sale, and many more. These are the list of events that happens throughout the
summer:
The public transportation is pretty accessible at Hyde Park, particularly downtown Hyde Park. “The Metra Electric District line of Chicago’s Metra commuter rail serves downtown Hyde Park. Hyde Park stations include the 51st/53rd Street Station, the 55th-56th-57th Street Station, and the 59th Street, University of Chicago Station.” Besides that, there CTA bus lines as well that are accessible to go the downtown Chicago. My group and I used the CTA bus, which went in express saved so much of our time.
Also, there are no problems of finding pharmacies and health care centers at Hyde Park. University of Chicago has its hospitals, which serves the Hyde Park community. There are a couple of clinics and hospitals, such as MinuteClinic and AHF Healthcare Center that the residents can get hold of. Walgreens, CVS, Max Care, etc. are all accessible as well. Overall, a whole-rounded neighborhood to live, if the family is wealthy enough.