A new exhibit at the American Writers Museum featres prominent and lesser-known Black authors, poets, and journalists.
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Queer history through the eyes of the Reader
“Y oung Hyde Park male seeks other young males to get it on with.” A phone number followed, along with the young man’s availability: days, as well as Friday and Saturday. The Chicago Reader’s first explicitly gay content came not in a blistering exposé, music feature, or show review, but in the classifieds, the backpages […]
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“City on Fire: Chicago 1871”
From its humble beginnings as a settlement founded by the Haitian Afro-Frenchman Jean Baptiste Point du Sable in the late 18th century, Chicago experienced explosive growth in the 19th century to become a hub of American economic and industrial innovation and progress. As wars and the forcible removal of the region’s indigenous population opened up […]
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We’re living (and dying) in a historic moment
Chicago History Museum is collecting the city’s pandemic experience.
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Chicago History Museum keeps the virtual lights on
Departing president Gary Johnson talks about going digital in a pandemic.
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Remembering forgotten lesbian history
“Lavender Women & Killer Dykes” at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives shines a light on the people, places, and publications that shaped Chicago’s lesbian culture.
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Was Casimir Pulaski intersex?
A new documentary gives the general a coming-out party 240 years after his death.