Duke University Class of 2025 — Regular Decision

srparent15
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:04:47 +0000

Haha, nothing wrong with that. Great city. Ofc Hyde Park isn’t really in the city and that’s a whole different story, but kids pretty much stay there for the most part unless they go into the city for some other reason. We haven’t been as open as other states thank god and our numbers had been going down, but then were creeping up again recently. The city is doing as good a job as possible to vaccinate it’s residents instead of anyone living outside the County.

Restaurants are starting to open at some capacity but there are a lot of great dining options downtown, west loop/river west/fulton market area especially. Lincoln Park may be too far if you have limited time. Loop has been fairly quiet these days with most commuters working from home. I’m not as familiar with Hyde Park restaurants as my ex husband lived downtown but I know my current one last I remember said some places are still there from 40 years ago. But you have to be careful where you walk and not go outside certain boundaries there, especially if you don’t know the area. They should try to hook up with someone/student to give them a tour. It used to be that you never went South of the Midway but I think a few streets south may be ok now, but you can’t go south of that.

Hyde Park is an interesting area. Million dollar homes, mixed in with the extreme opposite. Like any school, kids learn to navigate quickly and where to go and not to go. UC Hospitals are some of the best in the city and country. Coming in from Lake Shore Drive along the lake will be beautiful and with essentially no traffic these days you’ll get a treat. If directions take them from 94 to the school, then maybe not such a treat. But usually from Ohare you get diverted to take LSD, or at least that’s how we always went but either way you get a perfect view of the city as you drive by to get to Hyde Park as I assume they aren’t flying into Midway, although that is closer.

Not sure when they’re coming, but now it looks only like snow on Tuesday, and anywhere from 30’s-upper 50’s the rest of the week. Welcome to Chicago weather!! Monday will be the warmest with a high of 64 and then our cold starts. Yuck. I’m so ready for the sun and 70’s every day.