Chicago Loop Arts District Caucus meeting at the old Field Building on Chicago’s 189th birthday
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Chicago Loop Arts District Caucus meeting at the old Field Building on Chicago’s 189th birthday
“A good panelist is always a good literary citizen. Join us for discussion, and dishing.” – Cheryl Head, Boucheron
Free/Registration required:
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Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias reading to a group of pre-schoolers at the South Side YMCA Monday as part of “a coordinated literacy initiative that distributed thousands of children’s books and brought volunteer readers into YMCA sites across Chicago and the surrounding suburbs”
I could’ve listened to Janet Burroway and Miles Harvey talk about their brilliant books all night long. 💙 Thanks for having us, Bookends & Beginnings; to Ana Croegaert, Jeremy Wilson, and Julia Borcherts for bringing it all together; and to everyone who showed up for the discussion!
My favorite publication in the city turns 40 today. HaPpPy AnNiVeRsArY, Newcity! I’m so grateful for all the ways Newcity shines a light on arts and culture in the city.
Cover image: "Winter Raven" (2024) by Tony Fitzpatrick
SAVE THE DATE! 4pm on Saturday, February 7 at Bookends & Beginnings (Evanston) - A discussion featuring Janet Burroway and Miles Harvey I’m delighted to moderate!
Thursdat night — see you there!
Details: www.exhibitb312.com/event-detail...
View of full moon and Sears/Willis Tower 12.4.25
Saturday afternoon’s music-filled celebration of the new book THE PLAN OF CHICAGO: A CITY IN STORIES by Nelson Algren Award-winner Barry Pearce, published by Cornerstone Press. Huge congrats, Barry! So excited to dig in!
Book details: www.publishersweekly.com/9781968148119
Every year, CSPAN’s Book TV records a number of programs at Printers Row Lit Fest. You can now view this year’s recorded programs here, along with recorded programs from previous years: www.c-span.org/search/?sear...
Next Tue. (11/11), in celebration of Mark Turcotte's appointment as the Illinois Poet Laureate (!!!), DePaul University's English Department is hosting a special reading. Free and open to the public. Stop through!
Wednesday night!
Sunset in Albany Park, Chicago - 10.27.25
TODAY: 6PM-8PM
Chicago's 11th Annual ARTS IN THE DARK PARADE
Parade will move south down N. State from W. Randolph to W. Van Buren
Anyone interested in joining the Poets and Writers Guild, show up at 4pm on W. Wacker between Dearborn and State
artsinthedark.com
SAT., 10/18 is the 11th annual ARTS IN THE DARK PARADE, a rare and wonderful opportunity for kindred spirits to bring creative energy to downtown Chicago and participate in playful solidarity.
For details and to sign up: tinyurl.com/4e8bpzks
Sunset/moonrise w/Ana
Chicago, IL
10.7.25
It's Banned Books Week (10/5-11, 2025)
Join the fight against censorship by celebrating the right to read.
For information about Chicago area events this week, visit: www.facebook.com/events/17104...
10/20 at the Black Ensemble Theater, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will present Jackie Taylor - author of more than 100 plays and musical bios, thousands of poems, a screenplay, and two books - with this year’s Fuller Award for her lifetime achievements.
www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-fulle...
Flashback Friday to that gorgeous weekend earlier in the month when several city streets in Chicago's Printers Row neighborhood were transformed into a booklover's paradise.
Photo credit: @donseeley.bsky.social
Thur., 10/2 at 18th Street Casa de Cultura, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame presents Nuestros Corazones Literarios (Our Literary Hearts).
Free and open to the public.
For details and to RSVP: tinyurl.com/mu388d9v
View from 18th Street
(Chicago)
This year's Harold Washington Literary Award-winner Sandra Cisneros with Booklist’s Editor in Chief Donna Seaman ❤️🎉
Mayor Brandon Johnson just proclaimed today SANDRA CISNEROS DAY and September LITERARY MONTH IN CHICAGO. 🎉❤️🙌📚
A couple ways to celebrate:
Tonight: The Harold Washington Literary Award dinner, where Sandra will be honored (ticketed event)
Saturday: Printers Row Lit Fest - FREE & Open to the public
It's the 40th anniversary of Printers Row Lit Fest and Newcity published a gorgeous "oral history" - a collective mosaic of stories about Lit Fest. Read here: lit.newcity.com/2025/09/01/a...
And join us this weekend: 10am-6pm on Sat., 9/6 & Sun., 9/7
In case you missed my chat with voice of Chicago Rick Kogan, you can listen to it here: wgnradio.com/after-hours-...
(And if you listen close enough, you'll hear Tino's debut on radio.)
After Hours with Rick Kogan | WGN Radio
#2025printersrowlitfest #PrintersRowLitFest2025 #2025prlf
Will be talkin' Printers Row Lit Fest w/Rick Kogan on After Hours with Rick Kogan tonight (Sun., 8/31) around 6:30pm. Tune in! wgnradio.com/on-air/
#2025printersrowlitfest
The ARTS IN THE DARK PARADE’s poets and writers guild is calling all poets, writers, and bibliophiles at large to get involved in this year’s parade – whether it's sharing ideas, helping us get organized, participating in the parade, or promoting it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We’re thrilled to have a powerful lineup for the 40th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest. We have 7 Pulitzer Prize-winners in the mix! For details: printersrowlitfest.org
Sat., 9/6 & Sun., 9/7
10am-6pm
I’m helping to organize a poets and writers guild for the Arts in the Dark Parade, slated for Saturday, October 18. If you have ideas for the parade, would like to help participate, promote, or support in some other way, we would love to hear from you (by 8/29)! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...