This weekend we’ll be selling books and featuring a dozen or so of our authors at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest–billed as the Midwest’s Largest […]
Category: Chicago
The Sun-Times recommends Mushrooms
The Chicago Sun-Times suggests that you attend the launch party for Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States at the Chicago Botanic […]
Chicago Public Radio
View of Lake Michigan, 9:16 a.m. […]
Cheryl Ganz at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Cheryl Ganz will sign copies of her new book The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, on Friday, December 12 […]
101%
This morning a Chicago television station conducted a text poll on whether or not Gov. Blagojevich should resign. 87% voted yes, 14% voted no. Only in Chicago politics … […]
Sue and mushrooms
A fortuitous day to be in Chicago. The weather is crappy, but I love hearing my cab drivers talk about our governor. Looking forward to tomorrow’s papers. I visited The Field Museum to speak […]
The Adventures of Book Signing by Cheryl Ganz
Cheryl Ganz is author of the new book The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress. She will sign copies at the Old Orchard Barnes & Noble in Skokie on […]
Studs Terkel
I was out of town for the weekend, and so did not see the news that Studs Terkel died until this morning. About five years ago I saw him engaged […]
Just Landed: “The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair,” “African or American?” & “America’s Religions”
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past few weeks: –America’s Religions: From Their Origins to the Twenty-first Century Third Edition by Peter W. Williams (September 29, 2008) […]
Time Out Chicago profiles “The Hayloft Gang”
Chad Berry’s new edited collection, The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance, was profiled by Robert Loerzel in the August 7-13, 2008, issue of Time Out Chicago. […]
UIP 90th anniversary video
In celebration of the University of Illinois Press’s 90th anniversary, VideoWorks at the University of Illinois produced a 5:00 minute video that traces the history and accomplishments of our Press. Updated August 5, 2008: The […]
Go Cubs, Go! by Elliott Gorn
Of course I want the Cubs to win the World Series. This year, 2008, would be great—exactly one hundred years after their last World Championship. But secretly, in my heart-of-hearts, […]