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VALOIS RESTAURANT 1518 E. 53rd St. insider’s valoisrestaurant.com President Obama’s favorite breakfast spot! They serve classic soul food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Get guide this: they serve breakfast all day! If you forget cash for this cash-only establishment, worry not, there is an ATM Have you ever wondered what Hyde Park does inside. for fun? Sure you have! For a true taste of Hyde Park and its surrounding neighborhoods, check ORIENTAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY 1155 E. 58th St. out these not-to-be-missed South Side gems. Although Harper Memorial Library tends to attract more PROMONTORY POINT tourists and studiers alike, the Oriental Institute is home to 5491 S. South Shore Dr. a smaller, but just as beautiful reading room. Once inside, chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks/Burnham-Park/ head up the stone steps to the second floor and take a If you are looking for a great view of the lake and the right. Open 10am-5pm. Chicago skyline, or maybe just a calming place to sit and read, Promontory Point is the site to visit. A great UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PUB destination for picnics, sunsets, and people-watching, 1212 E. 59th St. “The Point” is located on Chicago’s Lake Front Trail, which Ida Noyes Hall, lower level stretches south to 95th Street and all the way north to leadership.uchicago.edu/orcsas-pub Navy Pier. Long gone are the days of indoor smoking and 50-cent cans of PBR, but “The Pub,” as it’s known on campus, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CAMPUS BOTANY maintains its status as a reliably fun place for students and botanicgarden.uchicago.edu faculty alike. There’s an extensive bottle list, but the really While the entire campus is classified as a botanical garden, good stuff is on tap—every day, the Pub pours selections Botany Pond is a good place to start. Located at the of Midwestern microbrews. Have a burger or brat (on a entrance to UChicago’s main quad, this pond is home to pretzel roll!), or come Mondays for cheap wing baskets several coy fish and ducks. Campus gems also include the and $8 pitchers of cheap American beer. Be sure to midway gardens across from the President’s residence and come with a University associate, though—membership is a visit to the greenery of the quadrangles. restricted, but guests can tag along for a $3 cover.

HYDE PARK RECORDS THE SEMINARY CO-OP BOOKSTORE 1377 E. 53rd St. 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. (McGiffert House) Hyde Park Records is a fun Chicago record store right here semcoop.com in Hyde Park. The friendly, very knowledgeable staff loves The legendary Seminary Co-op opened over 50 years ago helping customers navigate the Chicago blues and jazz as an independent bookstore on the University of Chicago archives. Make sure to stop in to say hello and possibly campus and instantly became a centerpiece of Hyde purchase some cool tunes! Park’s intellectual and cultural life. The bookstore recently moved from the basement of the labyrinthine stacks of NUCLEAR ENERGY SCULPTURE the Chicago Theological Seminary to a new space next On S. Ellis Ave. between E. 56th St. and E. 57th St. door to the Robie House designed by architects Stanley publicart.uchicago.edu Tigerman and Margaret McCurry. To find “Where the end of the world began,” as some on campus have taken to calling it, look for the statue on Ellis TIP: Be sure to check out the South Side Weekly for more Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets. It marks the spot information on neighborhood events and happenings at where Enrico Fermi directed a team of scientists as they southsideweekly.com. created the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction in 1942. Their work, as part of the Manhattan Project would, Share your experience of course, prove vital in helping end World War II just a few years later. #UChicagoVisit

1 PROMONTORY POINT 5 VALOIS RESTAURANT 5491 S. South Shore Dr. (off-map) 1518 E. 53rd St. (off-map)

2 BOTANY POND 6 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PUB 57th St. (south of Hull Gate) 1212 East 59th St., Ida Noyes Hall, lower level

3 HYDE PARK RECORDS 7 THE SEMINARY C0-OP BOOKSTORE 1377 E. 53rd St. (off-map) 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave. (McGiffert House)

4 NUCLEAR ENERGY SCULPTURE 8 ORIENTAL INSTITUTE LIBRARY S. Ellis Ave. between E. 56th St. and E. 57th St. 1155 E. 58th St. (at S. University Ave.)

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