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Southern Shore Yacht Club

“ SSYC Club House ” – Jackson Park Inner Harbor

We sponsor many great events

Fish Fries, Steak Fries, Octoberfest, Festive Events, and much more for 2022

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Enjoy the modern amenities, club house bar, full kitchen and YES, you can rent it!

Museum Shores Yacht Club 5900 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649

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Our History

  The Museum Shores Yacht Club (MSYC) is celebrating in 2020, 50 years on Chicago's South Shore.  We have a long history of serving the community and offering programs and events for South Shore residents young and old. 

For us, boats and boating is much more than our pastime – it's our passion!

Museum Shores Yacht Club is   

committed to serving the Chicagoland area and specifically the South Shore community with programs about boating and water safety for adults and youth.  

We also strive to introduce boating to families and future generations of captains.

Our Mission

 To promote interest in and the benefits of recreational power boating; to increase awareness and respect for the environment.  The Club also strives to establish and to advance, mutually harmonious relationships with local community groups and professional associations and to maintain an atmosphere of good sportsmanship among its members.

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Founded in 1896, shortly after the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the Jackson Park Yacht Club is one of the oldest yacht clubs in Chicago. The club is located in the Jackson Park outer harbor, across from the old U.S. Coast Guard Station, along the southern shores of Lake Michigan in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago.

To encourage and support a wide range of boating activities, and to provide and maintain a suitable clubhouse and associated facilities for the recreational and social use of its members.

The Jackson Park Yacht Club is a year-round private yacht club providing programs for its members, their families and their guests. JPYC supports and endorses boating, boating education and dining and provides social and recreational amenities that satisfy its membership. JPYC is family oriented and maintains an inviting atmosphere. We encourage members to entertain their family, friends and associates at the clubhouse.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

• Promote open, attentive and responsive Bridge and club management.
• Govern and manage the club in a manner that is fiscally responsible.
• Employ superior professional club management and promote an environment where members will treat club employees with dignity and respect.
• Maintain a continuous strategic planning process ensuring membership and management involvement that best meets the club’s vision.
• Maintain a facility that meets the club’s needs for storing member boats, hosting regattas, and promoting its junior and adult programs of skill development and boating safety.
• Maintain a full membership.
• Support a volunteer committee structure and nurture candidates for the Bridge and Board.
• Establish and nurture qualified reciprocal club relationships.
• Promote JPYC sailors in local, national and international regattas.
• Encourage and support active member participation in JPYC sponsored local and long distance cruising events.
• Foster the Jackson Park Yacht Club Foundation.
• Nurture relationships within the community

ENHANCE YOUR BOATING FUN

Join the Jackson Park Yacht Club to enjoy the many social events planned by the JPYC and all of the amenities our clubhouse offers.

Chicago Harbors main office will be closed on Monday, February 19, 2024 in observance of Presidents' Day.

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South Shore Cultural Center Park

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7059 S. South Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60649

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Located in the South Shore community, South Shore Cultural Center (formerly the South Shore Country Club) is a cultural facility that has been recognized as a Chicago Landmark (2004) and is also listed on the National Register (1975). This cultural haven was founded in 1905 and later rebuilt in 1916. Bought by the Chicago Park District in 1975, this historic building was restored as a historic landmark after a massive community campaign led by the Chicago Park District and historic preservationists. South Shore Cultural Center totals 70.84 acres. With its magnificent country club-like interior,this facility features a solarium, formal dining hall and the Paul Robeson Theater. Green features of the park include a nature sanctuary and a butterfly garden. Outside, the park offers a nine-hole golf course ,  beach , and open spaces for picnics and walks. Many of these spaces are available for rental including our solarium, dining room and theater. Park-goers can participate in variety of cultural programs and classes for all ages in dance, music, art, health, culinary arts, fitness, and more. South Shore has recently added new adult art classes including textile art, drawing & painting, mixed media art, and ceramics. 

After school programs are offered throughout the school year, and during the summer, youth attend the Chicago Park District’s popular six-week day camp.

In addition to programs, South Shore Cultural Center hosts fun special events throughout the year for the entire family, such as holiday-themed events.

South Shore Cultural Center Arts Partners: As the gem of the South Lakefront, South Shore Cultural Center is proud to offer a variety of culturally rich programs to the surrounding community. These programs would not be possible without the successful partnerships with various organizations including After School Matters, Chicago Music Association, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Court Theatre, Hatha Yoga, South Chicago Dance Theatre,  South Shore Advisory Council, South Shore Opera Company. For more information about these partnerships and programs, please contact the South Shore Cultural Center.

The South Shore Cultural Center, a 70 acre plus park with a golf course, tennis courts, a bathing beach, and an impressive building, originated as the South Shore Country Club. In 1905, Lawrence Heyworth, president of the downtown Chicago Athletic Club, envisioned an exclusive club with a "country setting." Heyworth selected unimproved south lakefront property, often used for fishing and duck hunting, for the new country club.

The club's directors hired architects Marshall and Fox, later known for designing many of Chicago's most luxurious hotel and apartment buildings, including the Drake Hotel. For inspiration, Heyworth provided a photograph of an old private club in Mexico City, but asked the architects to exclude expensive embellishments. As the club could not yet collect dues, work had to proceed quickly and inexpensively. To this end, members Marshall Field and A. Montgomery Ward lent their store delivery wagons to transport turf, sod, and trees. Mr. Worcester, Vice-President of the Peoples Gas Company, put in lighting for the grounds and clubhouse.

Enjoying immediate success and social importance, South Shore Country Club quickly outgrew its facilities. Marshall and Fox were hired to build a new clubhouse, incorporating the original ballroom. Constructed in 1916, the larger and more substantial reinforced concrete building, like the original, was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style. The country club's membership peaked in the late 1950s. Simultaneously, many African-Americans began settling in South Shore. Because the private club excluded black members, it went out of business in the 1970s.

In 1974, the Chicago Park District purchased the property to expand its lakefront facilities.  The Park District planned to demolish the severely-deteriorated clubhouse. However, community members rallied together to save the historic building. Rehabilitating the clubhouse as a cultural center in the late 1970s, the Park District has since restored other historic features including the front colonnade, entry gate and stables. 

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Metered parking is available in the lot on site.   Get rates and additional information .

For directions using public transportation visit www.transitchicago.com .

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7059 S. South Shore Dr. Chicago , IL 60649 United States

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Registration dates vary by park. The dates listed below are specific to this park.

• 2024 Spring: Zone 2: East of California

Most programs run from Monday, April 08 to Sunday, June 09.

Online registration begins Tuesday, March 05.

In-person registration begins Monday, March 11.

• 2024 Summer: Zone 2: East of California

Most programs run from Monday, June 10 to Sunday, August 25.

Online registration begins Tuesday, April 16.

In-person registration begins Monday, April 22.

Click on a program name below for description, availability and to add to your wish list or register online (if available). For activities that have already begun, registration is ongoing while spots are available. Resident fees are listed below. Non-resident fees are double.

Welcome to the 2024 Queen's Cup Race!

The 2024 south shore yacht club queen’s cup® race.

Plan now to enter the 85th challenge of one of the most storied yacht races on the Great Lakes. This year’s night race across Lake Michigan departs from Milwaukee, WI for South Haven, MI on June 28, 2024. Both Milwaukee’s South Shore Yacht Club and the South Haven Yacht Club will provide an experience worthy of this 85th Queen’s Cup Race. The race is open to all boats with a valid 2024 Midwest Performance Handicap Racing Fleet (MW-PHRF) rating certificate and ORC rating certificates. We will continue to have starts for the shorthanded fleet (with a limit of two crew per boat) and a cruising fleet for non-spinnaker monohulls. We are looking forward to increasing the participation of one design boats such as the GL52, J/111, Beneteau 40.7, Beneteau 36.7, and Tartan 10s. The racing between these boats and other one design boats has been close in prior years. The fee structure is based on boat length. This helps to make the fee schedule more affordable for smaller boats.

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South Shore Yacht Club

2300 e nock street, milwaukee, wi 53207, (414) 481-2331.

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Join the Club with the BEST VIEW and MOST ACCESS to our GREAT LAKE!

• Prime slip locations available
• Members-only access to our spectacular venue for private events with stellar staff
• Host to many regional and national regattas
• Junior and adult sailing lessons
• Camaraderie with sailors, powerboats, and non-boaters, with year-round events, socializing, and entertainment

Become a full member at one of the coolest places in Milwaukee!  We make fun affordable. Our members enjoy low cost slips and affordable dues.  We require a $100 nonrefundable application fee, which is credited to your account at the time of your formal induction as a new member.

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South shore yacht club, 2300 e nock street, milwaukee, wi 53207, (414) 481-2331.

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About South Shore Yacht Club

We are known to be the “friendliest” Yacht Club in town! SSYC is one of the oldest yacht clubs in Newport Harbor, founded in 1957 and is a full accredited organization with membership in US Sailing, Association of the Orange Coast Yacht Clubs and Southern California Yachting Association, where it is a senior member with special voting rights. With thousands of former members, SSYC members have held and currently hold, key position in Southern California yachting organizations. Historically and today, yacht clubs oversee sailboat races, cruises and boating related education programs. Any organization whose members are associate members of SSYC enjoy the benefits of being a part of a great historical yacht club, a yacht club which maintains senior status among yacht clubs, and a club that enjoys a stellar reputation as one of the State’s premier yacht clubs.

SSYC offers a fantastic children’s Sailing and Boating program through the Newport Sea Base which is located at 1931 West Coast Hwy, just down the street from the club. Since 1937 this non-profit organization relies on the generosity of charitable donations to its ongoing operations. Newport Sea Base has provided fun and valuable education maritime-based programs to all youth. Year-round, girls and boys learn oceanography, marine biology, environmental science, boating safety, dinghy and keelboat sailing, canoeing, kayaking, motor boating and other aquatic-related subjects.

South Shore Yacht Club

Our Yacht Club offers a full list of benefits that can be seen in the 'How to Join' section. Our calendar is full of social, racing and cruising activities...

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