Close to the lakefront activities, l0 minutes by car or Metra from downtown, and the heart of the place is the University of Chicago. Beautiful, historically significant homes and buildings, lots of old growth trees and limestone covered in ivy. Take a walk, you’ll see.

 

Perhaps best of all is the utter diversity in Hyde Park. Diversity of people, perspectives and points of view. With an explosion of new restaurants, bars and hotels, it’s become a city hotspot and there’s a nightly scene.