The South Side of Chicago is the city’s biggest section, both in area and in population. It is largely a residential area, home to blacks and other minorities. Hyde Park, home of the University of Chicago, is located here. Some of its houses are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Robie House is the area’s number one landmark. It was home to Frank Lloyd Wright.

Lorado Taft Midway Studios was used by the famous sculptor, one of whose works is “Fountain of Time.”

John J. Glessner House (the Glessner House Museum) was completed in 1887; it consists of four rows joined at the corner, surrounding a central courtyard.

Chicago Pile-1, built in 1942, was the world’s first man- made nuclear reactor.

The South Side also has many famous houses of worship. One is the K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple.

Chicago’s Chinatown is also on the South Side. It is much smaller than the Chinatowns of San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York, but it is no less interesting to visit.

The Union Stock Yards, built in 1865, were for decades the main meat- packing center of the city. They closed in 1971, but were declared a historic landmark ten years later.