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Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
SDN-003242, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society The Cubs played in the ballpark you see above before they were even known as the Cubs, beginning in 1893. When the century turned, they began the greatest period of baseball dominance in team history, and one of the greatest ever by any team -- winning four pennants in five years and two World Series, and winning 104 games...
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Postpartum Progress (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Mercy Hospital & Medical Center is presenting the Jennifer Mudd Houghtaling Perinatal Depression Conference at the University Club of Chicago on October 17, 2008. Continuing education credits are being provided by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the St. Xavier School of Nursing. Speakers include lots of fabulous people I am big fans of, including: Sonia Murdock, Executive Director of the...
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Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
DN-0068689, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago Historical Society. There was an interesting article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about a new multimedia documentary about the Old Maxwell Street Market released by blues, world, jazz and folk music label Shanachie Entertainment . The Life And Times Of Chicago's Legendary Maxwell Street combines a photo slideshow and classic films...
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Second City Style (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Last Tuesday evening a well-dressed crowd of (mostly) women came out to benefit The Costume Council of the Chicago Historical Society. They shopped, noshed on sushi and drank bubbly. What a perfect combination! Much of Nordstrom's designer floor was transported...
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
By Larry Ryan Alexsander Herman is the Bosnian born, Chicago dwelling novelist who only started writing in his second language, English, in 1995. His two books The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man earned him acclaim, awards and comparisons with...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
My review of Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project appears in The Boston Globe today. Here’s an excerpt: The late, great writer and World War II veteran Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was captured by the Germans and confined to a prisoner-of-war camp in Dresden. When an American air raid destroyed the city, he was put to work [...]
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Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Compiling our earlier post on poolside style, we spent some time looking at Slim Aarons' photographs and were reminded that he shot several portraits of writers in their homes and gardens. Do you kn
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Rick Perlstein is a national treasure. Buy his Nixonland. Buy it now: > The Meaning of Box 722 | OurFuture.org: art of the narrative. They'd never really been examined in-depth before, but by my reckoning they were the crucial hinge that formed the ideological alignment we live in now. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson—and, apparently, liberalism—achieved such a gigantic landslide victory that it appeared to...
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Stop Smiling (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Aleksander Hemon's, new book, The Lazarus Project, is peppered with images, both new and old. The old ones were from The Chicago Historical Society, and the new ones were taken by Hemon's childhood friend, Velibor Bozovic. Bozovic's dramatic images were taken while travelling through Eastern Europe doing research for the book; the book is historical [...]
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Richard Edelman - 6 A.M. (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
I was walking through Lincoln Park on Sunday en route to the Chicago Historical Society and came upon an old water trough on the bridal path, used by equestrians for their horses. It also was the watering hole for the...
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The Joy of Sox (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
In my book on the 1918 Red Sox , I explore the possibility that the World Series that fall between Boston and the Chicago Cubs was crooked. I could not offer definitive proof that the series had been tainted, but it was obvious that there was no shortage of financial incentive for players on both teams. Additionally, the Cubs mystified many sportswriters with their mistakes in the field, at the plate...
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WardWideWeb (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
The fantastic Chicago History Museum (formerly the Chicago Historical Society) presents a new exhibition, "Catholic Chicago", which opens tomorrow and runs through January. If you are in the Chicago area, please make an effort to go see this exhibit and support it! Included in the exhibit is video of the Tridentine High Mass at St. John Cantius, which was filmed a few weeks back. As a reminder, if...
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University of Chicago News Office (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Hanna Holborn Gray, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago and Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor in History, is among five distinguished recipients for the 2008 Making History Awards from The Chicago Historical Society.
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Farecastblog.com (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
By: Marco Lopez, Farecast Frequent Flier Make the most of the time you're grounded, with our guides to the ten busiest airports in the U.S. Our countdown of the busiest airports in the U.S. continues with #2 Chicago: O’Hare International Airport. 2. Chicago: O’Hare International Airport Just a smidge behind Atlanta in the race for world's busiest airport, O’Hare offers some [...]
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The Goat Rope (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
Photo credit: Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0003451. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society, by way of the Library of Congress. Welcome to Eugene Debs Week at Goat Rope. If this is your first visit, please click on yesterday's post. Brief recap: a few years back, I got the chance to portray the character of labor and socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for a history program of WV's Humanities...
