# You Don’t Know What You’ve Got til It’s Gone

Hyde Park History You Don’t Know What You’ve Got til It’s Gone Hyde Park Bank Building Patricia Morse Oct 29, 2026 2 1 Share An essential community hub has been dismantled in Hyde Park. It held services to neighbors and space to launch a business for 98 years. That era is gone. The services and businesses have scattered. It’s a severe loss to the neighborhood and the surrounding South Side. The building is still there. I wanted to record the building and its role before the memory has faded. From the official Chicago Landmark listing The corner of Lake Park Avenue and 53rd Street was t

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