A celebration of Chicago at the crossroads between two centuries.

Inspired by the wish to capture Chicago’s diversity and vibrance for posterity, an idea took shape to take “a year-long snapshot of the city,” beginning with the first minute of the new millennium and ending with the last minute of the year 2000.

Containing 199 photographs drawn from the Comer Archive of Chicago In The Year 2000 at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library, the images in city capture the lifestyles, architecture, spirituality, and personality of this archetypal American city with passion and creativity.

Weaving through and connecting the pictures are essays, fiction, and poetry from Chicago writers, including Rick Kogan, Studs Terkel, Rosellen Brown, Li-Young Lee, and many more. The volume’s thirty-nine photographers include Yvette Marie Dostatni, Ron Gordon, Leah Missbach Day, Zbigniew Bzdak, and Bob Thall.

"It's a great time capsule. A century from now, people will be able to open this book and get a real sense of what it was like to walk along Chicago's streets in our time. . . . A rich work of art and history. . . . This is what I want those people in 2106 to see when they want to know how we lived today."--Patrick T. Reardon, Chicago Tribune

“The photographs in this book were not meant for the society pages. These photographers’ grails are elsewhere and they have gone where the action is: a rodeo in Little Village; a baseball game on a cracked concrete field; a lonely lakefront or a dying Maxwell Street; the lonely old gaffer or the tough old doll on the park bench.”--Studs Terkel

"A priceless archive."--Hot Shoe

Teri Boyd is the visual project director for the Comer Foundation in Chicago. She works with a variety of photography projects and is currently copresident of the Blue Earth Alliance. She has been a picture editor for the Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, MSNBC.com, and the Seattle Times. Gary Comer was a native Chicagoan who grew up on the south side of Chicago. A lover of photography, Mr. Comer stayed actively involved with various charitable interests, and worked with the Comer Archive of Chicago In The Year 2000, until his death in October 2006.

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