On Sat 5/1 from 10:30 to noon, the U. of C’s Joseph Regenstein Library hosts a free workshop on how to research jazz history at Chicago libraries.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
Pear grafting, a pastry market, lectures on Prohibition, and more.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
An all-beer edition, including a chili cook-off with Dogfish Head, New Beer’s Eve, and lots of events in honor of the Craft Brewers Conference and Stone Brewing Company’s arrival in Chicago.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A lecture series on the history of the local candy industry, a contest to “create Dunkin’s next donut,” a wine tasting and buffet at Marie’s Pizza and Liquors, and more.
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The Chicago History Museum Wants Your Lounge Ax Stuff
The Chicago History Museum wants to document the history of the storied Lincoln Park club, and it needs your help.
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Graft and corruption: some backstory
The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic Machine (Southern Illinois University Press), the new book from local historian Richard C. Lindberg, offers “a colorful glimpse of 19th-century Chicago that reveals quite a bit about why the city is still infected with graft and corruption,” writes Mick Dumke […]
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7/14 — Sunset Boulevard in Grant Park
The Hollywood classic kicks off the first night of the Chicago Outdoor Film Festival.
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A peek inside the local fashion industry
Attendance at last night’s Inside Chicago Fashion panel discussion should have been mandatory for students of the city’s many fashion design programs. Local designer Anna Fong revealed that if she had to do it all over again, she would have majored in business and minored in fashion at Columbia College, calling her job 90 percent business and 10 percent design.
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Franz Jackson, dead at 95
Chicago’s greatest link to its own jazz history, Franz Jackson, has died.
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Endangered Treasures: Saving Our Culinary History
“Endangered Treasures,” a fund-raiser for the Chicago History Museum’s collection of antique recipes, takes place this Friday.