Category Archives: Chicago

February 22, 2013

Picturing Illinois authors featured on Chicago Tonight

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Picturing Illinois authors John Jakle and Keith Sculle appeared on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program on February 21st. “Chicago Tonight” also posted a gallery of some of the postcard art featured in Picturing Illinois.

February 4, 2013

Q&A with Organized Crime in Chicago author Robert M. Lombardo

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Robert M. Lombardo is an associate professor of criminal justice at Loyola University Chicago and a former Chicago Police officer. He answered our questions about his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia. Q: What is your definition … Continue reading →

January 4, 2013

Robert Lombardo discusses organized Crime in Chicago on PBS

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Robert Lombardo discusses his new book Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight.

November 7, 2012

Postcard of the Day, Part 8

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In recognition of President Obama’s victory, today’s featured postcard is The University of Chicago in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago, ca. 1935. Max Rigot Selling Co., Chicago (#272); C. T. American Art. Courtesy of Curt Teich. Taken from Picturing … Continue reading →

October 29, 2012

Postcard of the Day, Part 1

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Today, October 29, 2012, is the official publication date of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo, by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Providing rich historical and geographical context, Picturing Illinois illustrates the postcard’s significance in American popular … Continue reading →

October 3, 2012

The Haymarket Conspiracy author interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition

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Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of the new University of Illinois Press book The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about his struggle to change the Wikipedia entry for the Haymarket Affair to reflect new research about the historic … Continue reading →

September 28, 2012

Author Stephen K. Ashby Talks about the Chicago Teachers’ Strike

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Stephen K. Ashby, co-author of Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement, has spoken out strongly over the past several weeks about the Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike. Last week, as the strike was suspended, he participated in … Continue reading →

September 17, 2012

An Emphasis on Conspiracy, Less on the Trial

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Last week Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, published a post on his own blog in response to a negative review in Dissent. While tacitly acknowledging that not everyone will like or agree with his work, … Continue reading →

August 27, 2012

The Chicago Tribune profiles The Black Chicago Renaissance

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The August 27, 2012, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of the new University of Illinois Press collection The Black Chicago Renaissance. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr., The Black Chicago Renaissance presents early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital … Continue reading →

June 29, 2012

Book trailer for Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland

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On June 4, 2012, we published Janine MacLachlan’s book Farmers’ Markets of the Heartland.  View the book trailer to learn more about Janine’s celebration of “change-the-world people.”