Harper Court is moving up

The Hyde Park shopping center originally built to keep an artist presence in the face of urban renewal (but subsequently purchased by the university) will gain two new entertainment tenants: the long promised Checkerboard Lounge, “price out” of Bronzeville (only in Dorothy Tillman’s world could that happen) and a generically named restaurant from KDK, impresario of the Randolph and Wabash restaurant districts. Together with Bar Louie and the bowling alley, the result is that Hyde Park now has more than 133% more places to drink now than it did just three years ago.