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Hyde Park Records

CTL-E-1212 · Business · retail · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

The store opened in 2010 at 1377 E. 53rd Street, becoming a South Side neighborhood record store after Dr.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:hyde-park-records; source research type(s): store. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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Record CTL-E-1212 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources · CTL research: BMI-002.
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From the Archive

The archive in pictures

Black Chicago’s musical record, kept frame by frame. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Howlin’ Wolf performing, 1972
Howlin’ Wolf performing, 1972Photo: Doug Fulton, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Chess Records studio booth during restoration, Chicago
The Chess Records studio booth during restoration, ChicagoPhoto: get directly down, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Etta James performing, 2006
Etta James performing, 2006Photo: John K. Addis, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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