The house next door to mine was torn down. My neighbors don’t quite remember the year, but the resident local historian, Maurice, who has lived on the block since the late 60s, was shipped off to Vietnam and, upon his return in 1972, the house had vanished. The product of “slum clearance” on Chicago’s west […]
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Sweat equity, radical politics, and gentrification
Before Pilsen welcomed gallery spaces and Little Village became La Villita, the city’s Mexican population fought to make their voices heard and for places to live. Georgetown University historian Mike Amezcua chronicles this decades-long struggle in his compelling Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification, published in February by University of […]
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John D’Emilio dives deep into queer archives
With his new book, the historian highlights underappreciated LGBTQ trailblazers.
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A load of Crap
Wendy Woloson’s book dives deep into America’s obsession with cheap stuff.
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John Corbett celebrates his latest book with free barbecue and fantastic bands
John Corbett celebrates his latest book with free barbecue and fantastic bands, self-described “Bruce jazz” trio Poplife play a farewell-for-now show, and more.
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Pamela Bannos’s Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife, reviewed
Northwestern University professor Pamela Bannos’s new book, Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife, takes on the myth of the now-famous street photographer.
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The best made-in-Chicago gift ideas for the holidays
Shop hyperlocal this season for everything from unorthodox games and Chicago-centric books to craft booze and high-design home goods.
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A guide to fact-checking arrives at the perfect time
Brooke Borel and the University of Chicago Press release a fitting book for a presidential election full of falsehoods.
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What Chicago can learn from LA’s Skid Row
U. of C. sociologist Forrest Stuart catalogs the perils of overpolicing in Down, Out, and Under Arrest.
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If you build it, they will destroy it
A new book by Daniel M. Abramson breaks down how innumerable architectural marvels were unnecessarily demolished to make way for profitable new construction.
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Experience Cannes vicariously by reading Roger Ebert’s journal
University of Chicago Press reprints the film critic’s account of the 1987 edition of the festival.
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Can Chicago take another heat wave?
Sociologist Eric Klinenberg applauds Chicago’s heat disaster plan, but worries about an event worsened by global warming.
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American Theater Company’s artistic director leaves a worthy legacy
American Theater Company artistic director PJ Paparelli, killed in Scotland last month, leaves a worthy legacy in The Project(s).
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Infested is a thoroughly delightful book about bedbugs
But be warned: It makes for uncomfortable bedtime reading.
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Chicago Humanities Fest artistic director Matti Bunzl is heading to Vienna on a journey of his own
UI prof and CHF artistic director Matti Bunzl’s new job puts an outsider at the center of Viennese culture.