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Join us for a moderated discussion featuring local journalists who have contributed essential news and information in Chicago’s second most common language. Panelists will include Jesus Del Toro (editor in chief and general manager of…
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Join us in welcoming Norwood Park Historical Society (NPHS), as they introduce us to their new book “Norwood Park: A View from the Ridge.” Learn about the oldest house in Chicago, where NPHS resides and about the history surrounding our…
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Join us at the Comic Book Roundtable, where local writer/artist Gene Ha will be showing us how comic books are created! We'll learn about the process of drawing and telling a story through sequential art. We'll also hear about how the…
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Skyline Village Chicago and the Near North Library host nonagenarian and new author Nancy Stevenson. Stevenson will discuss the process that led to the publication of her novel Long Reach. Although Stevenson has been in the public eye for…
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Who invented the Italian beef and giardiniera? How did the ingredients on the Chicago hot dog come together? What's a jibarito? How did Chicago become the home of the Jim Shoe, mild sauce and taffy grapes?
Learn the answer to these…
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Chicago Public Library is pleased to host the podcast launch party of Division Street Revisited. A podcast team led by Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Schmich follows up on the stories of “uncelebrated” people from Studs Terkel’s…
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Chicago author Renée Rosen appears in conversation with fellow local author Shelby Van Pelt to discuss Rosen's new book, Let's Call Her Barbie.
Renée Rosen is the USA Today bestselling author of Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl, The Social…
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Chicago author Donna Seaman appears in conversation with fellow local author Alex Kotlowitz to discuss Seaman's new book, River Of Books.
With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine…
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Join CPL and American Writers Museum for the kickoff event for the American Writers Museum's new exhibit and program initiative, American Prophets. American Prophets explores how the nation's leading writers address religion and…
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CPL welcomes journalist Mary Annette Pember to discuss her new book Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.
Ojibwe journalist Mary Annette Pember’s mother was forced to…