Statue of Barack and Michelle Obama

Torch Song is a sculpture by Alison Saar, installed at the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Inspired by the Statue of Liberty, the bronze sculpture depicts a woman holding a gilded flame. The work is located in the Women's Garden and was among the last to be finalized for the campus. The Chicago Sun-Times has said it "manages to evoke both the city's blues tradition and the Statue of Liberty with her flame". Vogue said the work "reimagines the Statue of Liberty through the lens of blues music and Black womanhood". Palisades News said the artwork "embodies the Center's mission to inspire hope and democratic ideals". According to the Obama Foundation, Saar creation the statue "as a symbol of resistance and speaking truth".

The Woman's Building was designed and built for the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 under the auspices of the Board of Lady Managers. Of the twelve main buildings for the Exhibition, on June 30, 1892 The Woman's Building was the first to be completed. It had exhibition space as well as an assembly room, a library, and a Hall of Honor. The History of the World's Fair states, "It will be a long time before such an aggregation of woman's work, as may now be seen in the Woman's Building, can be gathered from all parts of the world again."

Sky Landing is a sculpture by Yoko Ono, installed in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Located on Jackson Park's Wooded Island, near the Garden of the Phoenix, the artwork was installed 2016 and marks the artist's first permanent installation in the Americas. Ono attended the dedication. According to WTTW, she created the work "as a gesture of peace, harmony and healing". It features twelve steel lotus petals. WBEZ has said the petals and mounds "form the yin yang symbol to symbolize peace".

59th Street/University of Chicago is a railway station that serves the Metra Electric Line in Chicago, Illinois. The station is on 59th street, originally the University of Chicago's southern border, and the Midway Plaisance. Trains run between Millennium Station downtown and University Park, Blue Island, and the Chicago neighborhood of South Chicago. As of 2018, the station is the 63rd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 812 weekday boardings. Before the 55th–56th–57th Street station to the immediate north was rebuilt into a major station in 2002, all express trains served 59th Street and the station had a staffed ticket window. The majority of University of Chicago and Hyde Park traffic is now served by the 55th–56th–57th Street station; only some express trains stop at 59th Street.

The Barack Obama Presidential Center is a planned museum, library and education project in Chicago to commemorate the presidency of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. The center will also include community and conference facilities and will house the nonprofit Obama Foundation. Construction on the 19.3 acre campus is expected to top out in April 2024, and be completed in October 2025.The center's work includes digitizing the Barack Obama Presidential Library with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), to create the first fully digitized presidential library. The Library is administered by NARA, which will preserve hardcopies of documents at a separate NARA facility; however, many will be loaned to the Presidential Center for display.The center is located in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago, adjacent to the University of Chicago campus. The university provides planning, support, engagement and programming. Included within the center's plans is a new branch for the Chicago Public Library.Federal review ended in December 2020, with final completion in 2021. Construction began in August 2021.

Hyde Park Academy High School (formerly known as Hyde Park High School and Hyde Park Career Academy) is a public 4–year high school located in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1863, Hyde Park is operated by the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) district and is located south of the University of Chicago. In 2012, Hyde Park became the fourth Chicago public high school to become an International Baccalaureate school.

The Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Monument (also known as the Thomas Garrigue Masaryk Memorial) is a monument by Albin Polasek, installed in Midway Plaisance in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was created in 1949 and installed in 1955. The memorial depicts a Blanik knight on horseback.

The University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies is one of eight professionals schools of the University of Chicago. The Graham School's focus is on part-time and flexible programs of study. The Graham School offers Master's degree programs, academic certificate programs, and a variety of credit and non-credit courses for graduate students at large, returning scholars, and adult learners. The Graham School manages the Summer Session, a series of academic programs for high school students, visiting college students, and international students. It conducts lecture series and other programs throughout the year. The school's administrative offices can be found on the University of Chicago's main campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Summer Session programs and some courses are also held on the main campus. The majority of courses are conducted at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago.

Fab Lab MSI (Fabrication Laboratory at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois) is a small scale workshop that uses various machines to create both prototypes for individuals and small projects for museum members and visitors. The idea behind the Fab Lab is to be able to learn how to use various machines to build "almost anything". The lab is located in the innovations (the ball enterprise) section of the museum, next to the Toymaker 3000 . This Fab Lab is part of 34 other Fab Labs found in 10 countries, all of which started in the Media Lab at MIT. These labs are all interconnected, although the idea is for each lab to become independent yet keeping with the same concepts and ideas. The equipment found in the Fab Lab at MSI includes: Laser cutter - sheet material cutting Modela milling machines - 3-d milling and scanning machine CNC machine - computer-controlled mills, lathes, etc. Computer labs - computers equipped with various software for any lab project as well as conference calling Vinyl cutting machines - used to cut and create vinyl projects Electrical stations - stations with electrical equipment (anything from circuit boards, resistors and LED lights to solar panels and small LCD screens)

Bayan Islamic Graduate School is a private, non-sectarian Islamic graduate school based in Orange, California with its campus located in Chicago, Illinois. It offers accredited Master of Arts degrees in four subject areas: Islamic Studies, Islamic Leadership, Islamic Education, and Advanced Islamic Theology as well as a Master of Divinity in Islamic Chaplaincy.Bayan's degree programs are offered in partnership with the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS), one of Chicago's oldest seminaries.Bayan also offers several continuing education programs including a graduate certificate in conjunction with CTS, an Intensive Arabic Language course online, and unlimited access to self-paced courses in Islamic Studies, Chaplaincy, and other subjects through Bayan On-Demand.

Jackson Park was a station on the Jackson Park Branch of the Chicago "L". The station opened on May 12, 1893, and closed on March 4, 1982, when "L" service on the Jackson Park branch was suspended due to structural defects in the Dorchester bridge over the Illinois Central Railroad. The station was later demolished. The station was the terminal of the Jackson Park branch from October 31, 1893 until March 4, 1982.

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is a science museum located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago. It is housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Initially endowed by Julius Rosenwald, the Sears, Roebuck and Company president and philanthropist, it was supported by the Commercial Club of Chicago and opened in 1933 during the Century of Progress Exposition. Among the museum's exhibits are a full-size replica coal mine, German submarine U-505 captured during World War II, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model railroad, the command module of Apollo 8, and the first diesel-powered streamlined stainless-steel passenger train (Pioneer Zephyr).