CultureTechLens logoCULTURETECHLENS

“Culture, Clearly Seen.” Black Cultural Intelligence

Subscribe to CTL 10

Silver Room Block Party

CTL-E-0038 · Event

VERIFIED evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

Combined Graph record U-00581 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-E-0038. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Hyde Park street festival

Answer summary · this record in brief, from its own record text

Hyde Park street festival

Sources

Evidence note (master store)

The Silver Room Block Party was launched by Eric Williams in Wicker Park in 2002 as an extension of his Silver Room store (The TRiiBE, quoting Williams). The annual event moved to Hyde Park (53rd Street and Lake Park Avenue) in 2015, then to Oakwood Beach in 2022; the 2023 edition (July 29-30, Oakwood Beach) was announced as the last in that form. Stored note 'Hyde Park street festival' describes only its 2015-2019 Hyde Park era, not its Wicker Park origin or Oakwood Beach move.

More event records

Browse the full directory: all entity records

Record CTL-E-0038 · Combined Graph record U-00581 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · 1 source.
Directory: all entity records · the knowledge graph

Researched and maintained by the CultureTechLens research program · CultureTechLens Combined Graph, Release 2026-11-04. Corrections are public: the corrections log.

Cite this record

Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Silver Room Block Party (CTL-E-0038),” CultureTechLens Combined Graph, Release 2026-11-04. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0038-u-00581/

Chicago: CultureTechLens. “Silver Room Block Party (CTL-E-0038).” CultureTechLens Combined Graph. Chicago, IL: CultureTechLens, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0038-u-00581/
APA: CultureTechLens. (2026). Silver Room Block Party (CTL-E-0038) [Entity record]. CultureTechLens Combined Graph. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0038-u-00581/
MLA: CultureTechLens. “Silver Room Block Party (CTL-E-0038).” CultureTechLens Combined Graph, 2026, https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-0038-u-00581/

Citation guidance for teachers, journalists, and funders: How to Cite Us.

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLens
Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941 — CultureTechLensPhoto: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ... - a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. (IA spaldingsbasebal04chic) — CultureTechLens
Spalding's base ball guide, and official league book for ... - a complete hand book of the national game of base ball .. (IA spaldingsbasebal04chic) — CultureTechLensPhoto: John H. White, U.S. EPA DOCUMERICA, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The DuSable Black History Museum’s Harold Washington Wing, Chicago — CultureTechLens
The DuSable Black History Museum’s Harold Washington Wing, Chicago — CultureTechLensPhoto: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trust & evidence

Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.

Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — see the corrections log.