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Hyde Park, 5242 S Hyde Park Blvd | Chicago
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  •  Building Laundry Room  
  •  Cat friendly
  •  Doorman Building
  •  Fitness Center
  •  Granite Countertops
  •  Hardwood Floors
  •  Minimum Lease Term  
  •  Parking Available
  •  Private Balconies
  •  Short Term Rentals
  •  Stainless Steel Appliances
  •  Walk-in Closets

User Rating

6.6
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13 Reviews

About this Location

Whole Foods Market
10 min walk
Burnham Park
2 min walk
ME (rail) - 4 min
171/28/6 (bus) - 1 min
In a quiet
neighborhood

Pricing 

Studio, 1 Bath
$1,075+
1 Bedroom, 1 Bath
$1,295+
2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths
$2,000+
Schedule Appointment At
(773) 492-8983

  • Bedrooms

    •  Walk-in Closets

  • Building Related

    •  Elevators
    •  Smoke-Free Community

  • Convenience

    •  Dry Cleaning Valet Service

  • Kitchen

    •  Dishwasher
    •  Garbage Disposal
    •  Gas Range
    •  Granite Countertops
    •  Microwave
    •  Refrigerator
    •  Stove & Oven

  • Laundry

    •  Building Laundry Room  

  • Lease Terms

    •  Minimum Lease Term  

  • Living Room

    •  Air Conditioning  
    •  Ceiling Fans
    •  Hardwood Floors
    •  Wall-to-Wall Carpets

  • Pet Terms & Amenities

    •  Cat friendly

  • Sports & Fitness

    •  Fitness Center

  • View

    •  Private Balconies
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Overall rating 6.6/10, based on 13 renter reviews Write a review

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5.3
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5.0
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6.5
Value
5.2
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6.9
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East Park Tower Review

Rent is a lot lower compared to other buildings in the vicinity; apartments are spacious and updated

Super quiet and respectful neighbors

Not a lot of law students live here (could be a good thing or a bad thing lol)

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Great location, relatively reasonably priced

Great location, right across the street from the park and across the street from a bus stop that takes you to campus and downtown. Building is pet friendly, maintenance is responsive and building is very clean.

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Great

Great view. renovated floor and huge size

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  • 2 beds / 2 baths
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Confortable and nice

Mac Apartments is great, they are prompt to answer any maintenance or management request.

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  • 1 bed / 1 bath
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Great place to live if you're less social

My apartment is completely beautiful: crown molding, spacious, uninterrupted lake view from all rooms. The drawback is, of course, that it's not in the Loop with other Boothies. I recommend East Park Tower if you need your space from all the social action. You also need to have some money set aside each month for late night Uber rides from the Loop.

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Nice spot

Nice spot, doing battle with the radiators a bit, but the renovated kitchen is lovely

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Mac Property Review

The water sometimes shuts off during the middle of the night. This has happened several times. The staff does not give consistent answers to questions and it is unclear what the policy is regarding certain things. It is hard to reach the management staff at times.

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East Park Tower

Not great, but not bad. Not as modern as Regents or Shoreland, but quiet and great location on 53rd. MAC Management (so not good), but the maintenance guys on-site are very friendly and respond quickly.

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5242 S Hyde Park (East Park Tower)

I love my apartment and my building. The location is perfect, bus stop across the street gets me to school or downtown quickly. There is no doorman but because of that the price is a lot lower than the other high-rises in the area. If you can get a recently renovated unit, its a steal. Gym on first floor and laundry on each floor. Don't want to leave!

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MAC is awful

Scheduled and unscheduled water shut offs happen frequently, requiring us to call services at 9pm to ask them to fix the pipes. Extensive water damage required constructing an entire wall, which was two days of work. MAC also got rid of the doorman at the front with no notice, despite advertising it as one of the perks of the building. Shower water temperature is not consistent--it runs from hot to cold though the knobs are not touched. Maintenance requests require days to fix. Overall, the worst apartment I have ever lived in.

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  • Studio / 1 bath

The Neighborhood

Signature Spots

dining 29 Recs

Pizza Capri
Valois
Roti Modern Mediterranean
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grocery 1 Rec

Whole Foods Market
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convenience 1 Rec

Walgreens
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fitness 12 Recs

CorePower Yoga
Danceytude
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parks 6 Recs

Promontory Point
57th Street Beach
Jackson Park
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coffee 9 Recs

Sip & Savor
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About Hyde Park

One of Chicago's most beloved neighborhoods, Hyde Park effortlessly combines modern flair with a rich historical background. The neighborhood proudly flaunts the fact that they have more Nobel Prize winners per square kilometer than any other place on earth! Though extremely studious, residents of H...
Nice
Diverse
Walkable
Pretty Safe
Easy Commute
Good Restaurants
Quiet Neighborhood
Median rents in Hyde Park
Studio
$
900
1 Bedroom
$
1,450
2 Bedroom
$
1,950

Getting around Hyde Park

ME (rail)

4 min

171 (bus)

1 min

55 (bus)

7 min

15 (bus)

5 min

192 (bus)

6 min

Parking Near East Park Tower

No parking is available at East Park Tower, but there is parking nearby.

1130 S. Michigan Ave.

100 min
$230 / month
Parking rates are for informational purposes only and may vary — for most up to date pricing, please reach out to the garage directly.

Hyde Park Reviews

222 reviews
Reviewed by Chicago Booth Student living at Haymarket House
Hyde Park is a historic neighborhood with a lot of local flavor and a defensible restaurant / bar scene. Plus, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and Target all recently opened locations here, so there's an abundance of grocery store options.

I personally loved living close to campus, for access both to Harper Center and to the broader UChicago campus. I feel much more integrated with the rest of the university as a result of proximity and availability.
Reviewed by UChicago LLM Student living at City Hyde Park
You can easily access all your necessary facilities. Just 1 minute walk to CTA bus stops for U of C and downtown and U of C night shuttle bus stop. 3 minutes walk to Metra station. You can go to Whole Foods Market without getting out during brutal Chicago winter. 5 minutes walk to Chipotle, Roti, Starbucks, movie theater and UPS .10 minutes walk to Trader Joes, Office Depot, Walgreens, CVS, Target, and USPS.
Reviewed by UChicago Law Student living at n/a
If I manage to catch the bus, it's about 15 minutes during busy times of the day or like 9 minutes at non-busy times. I can also walk to school in about 20 minutes, so it's not bad even if I miss the bus or if there are too many people already on the bus so it just drives by without even stopping (which happens frequently before 10 am). I've never had any problems where I live, and I regularly walk around at very odd hours like 3 am or whatever. Of course, I don't recommend doing that. It only takes once.
Reviewed by UChicago Law Student living at 5118 S Dorchester Ave
The convenience of getting to campus cannot be beat. I feel relatively safe as a young woman here. I have never been robbed thus far. Thankfully there are lots of police officers. I get my groceries at hyde park produce and whole foods, which are both pretty convenient. The 172 is great. I just wish it ran later at night for late classes.
Reviewed by Chicago Resident living at Hyde Park Manor Condominium
Hyde park is just the best! It has really blossomed over the past 5 years that I've been living there. It has really become home for me. I have lived on Blackstone, Cornell, Woodlawn, and now Kenwood. Each experience has been awesome. I have felt comfortable and safe at all times - even with my late night walks/runs. My favorite feature of course is Lake Michigan! There's something about Hyde Park's lake front that i just adore!
Reviewed by UChicago Law Student living at The Versailles
There's a lot going on off of 53rd. Good restaurants (A10, Promentory, Yusho) and even some worthwhile fast food (Native Foods, Chipotle). There are two grocery stores (Hyde Park Produce is phenomenal), and almost everything else (a hardware store, an office supply store in the Treasure Island shopping center, some doctors' offices off of 55th). Down on 57th there are some other good restaurants (Medici) and 57th Street Books is a cornerstone. Hyde Park even just got an improv comedy place (The Revival) on 57th.

In short, there's enough going on in Hyde Park not to feel isolated, but it's far enough away from the city not to feel suffocated.
Reviewed by UChicago Law Student living at Residence Place of Hyde Park
Hyde Park is great if you want convenience and safety. Some things are a little overpriced (god help those who want cheap flour) but others are cheap (i.e., square footage of your unit if you aren't in Regents). It's not a neighborhood for those who love nightlife. We have almost none. But there's a professional theater company, some good restaurants, and you can walk home basically any time of night.
Reviewed by UChicago Law Student living at 5321 S. Cornell Ave.
Hyde Park is a great place to live for a student or a young family, in that it's relatively quiet, but is growing quickly in terms of entertainment and dining options. It's also very beautiful, being an older neighborhood with a lot of brownstones and castle-like structures, and big trees with lots of beautiful foliage in the fall. I don't like the fact that there's not an L stop central to the neighborhood, but the Metra makes up some of the difference if you live nearby, and the buses to downtown are relatively convenient. Also, people's concerns about "safety" are ridiculous – I think certain people tend to become afraid when they see more brown people than they are used to, but the neighborhood is actually one of the wealthiest and safest neighborhoods in the city, in addition to having the advantage of being culturally and demographically diverse. There's also a lot of really nice park space (you're between Jackson Park and Washington Park, have the Midway Plaisance right in the middle of the university, and other smaller parks like Nichols Park and Harold Washington Park provide a lot of nice greenery).

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