Dialogs: Considering Contagion with Maddow and Schama at Chicago Humanities Festival Events
This autumn’s Chicago Humanities Festival is chock-a-block with notable writers. That focus is normal for one of the Windy City’s…
This autumn’s Chicago Humanities Festival is chock-a-block with notable writers. That focus is normal for one of the Windy City’s…
Chris Coyle and designer Scott Sugiuchi will attend a book release party at Quimby’s Bookstore (1854 W North Ave) on…
No matter how busy they were creating the universe, some gods always found time to lay down the law on…
Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th) thinks the little free libraries along many Chicago sidewalks are bad—very bad. They are “unregulated”! And they’re…
In her new book Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook Sonya Huber offers a collection of effective essays mostly about…
Near the end of Saturday at this year’s Printers Row Lit Fest, an 80-year-old Italian painter from the North Shore…
Metal, as a genre, is an amusing blend of arrogance and earnestness. Look past the leather and chains, wind-milling manes,…
Kathleen Osberger’s account of her three harrowing months as a religious volunteer with a community of Catholic nuns in Chile…
Forty-five years ago, Jeffrey Sweet wrote a book—the story of Second City, which was then only about a decade old.…
The expedition of discovery Louis Jolliet, a merchant-explorer, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest, undertook with five other men in…
In late 1972, Ed Marciniak, a perennial social critic and justice activist, became president of the Institute of Urban Life,…
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