What do you like to make when you have time? Do you like to cook with your family? Do you like to work on art projects? Create your own costumes? There are so many things you can make! As the weather turns cold, it's the right time to curl up inside and make something you…
Fashion Beyond Borders with Hoda Katebi
Hoda Katebi and Abigail Glaum-Lathbury appeared in conversation about fashion, politics and human rights, presented as part of Slow Fashion Month as part of the 2020 One Book, One Chicago season. Hoda Katebi is a Chicago-based Iranian-American writer, organizer, and creative educator focused on the intersections of fashion, resistance gender and the state. She is…
Episode 4: Commercial Endeavors: The Loop Transformed by New Arrivals
Join us as we explore the people and places that make Chicago great. Explore Chicago's rich heritage of immigration and migration, and how newcomers made the city their own and influenced and changed its growth and future. This series is hosted by urbanologist Max Grinnell and is part of the 2020 One Book, One Chicago…
Beyond Borders: Exploring Cookbooks, Expanding Horizons
This season of One Book, One Chicago, we explore the theme Beyond Borders and the book Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. One of the ways I love to explore the world is through cooking. I know the universal language is technically mathematics, but in my experience food is a great way to learn about a…
What’s Your Cozy Read? Escape with These Engrossing Books
As the year winds down, I join the majority of Chicagoans who are exhausted from a year of pandemic crisis, battered by spiraling news stories and heartbreaking pictures of people struggling day-to-day. We read to escape or find places that are meaningful to us. Right now seems like a good time to take the plunge…
Snacks in the Stacks: Chicken Adobo and Garlic Fried Rice
Join me, librarian and amateur cook Ashley Rayner, in my home kitchen as I explore culture through food as part of this year's One Book, One Chicago. Each dish is made from cookbooks that you can find at CPL. This episode, I'll make Chicken Adobo with Garlic Fried Rice, as found in The Adobo Road…
Scorpio: The Bookstrologist Recommends
Scorpio, you're known for being fearless, determined and strategic. You're fierce and the type of leader that isn't deterred by danger. We recommend you check out the accessible, informative and illustrated She Came to Slay about the life of Harriet Tubman. Tubman was born into slavery, escaped and went on to lead dozens of slaves…
Overlooked Landmarks of Polish Chicago
While plenty are familiar with Polonia Triangle, Jackowo, and the many “Polish Cathedrals” which dot Chicago’s built environment, there are a host of other Polish-American sites in the region which are largely unknown. Daniel Pogorzelski of ForgottenChicago.com shared overlooked landmarks of Polish Chicagoland.…
Episode 3: Along State Street That Great Street: Telling the Story of Well Known and Lesser Known Arrivals
Join us as we explore the people and places that make Chicago great. Explore Chicago's rich heritage of immigration and migration, and how newcomers made the city their own and influenced and changed its growth and future. This series is hosted by urbanologist Max Grinnell. Episode 3:Along State Street That Great Street: Telling the Story of…
Korean American Stories on Film
HJ Lee, the executive director of KoreanAmericanStory.org led a discussion on Korean American immigrant stories by showing a short film: Call Taxi and introducing KAS's Legacy Project. Julian Kim, Director of Call Taxi, and Peter Lee, Producer of Call Taxi, joined the discussion…
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