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Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Events and News
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Events and News

Events

Fuller Award for Scott Turow

Thursday, October 5, 2023
5 p.m.

Harold Washington Public Library
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State Street
Chicago, IL 60606

Scott Turow, the acclaimed author of 15 books, will receive CLHOF's highest honor for living writers, the Fuller Award. The ceremony will take place at the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, and will be a signature event…

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Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Year-End Fundraiser Party

Saturday, December 2, 2023
TBA

Beat Kitchen in Roscoe Village
2100 West Belmont Avenue
Chicago, IL
Cover: $20

The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame will againt host its end-of-the-year Fundraiser Party on Saturday, December 2 at Roscoe Village’s Beat Kitchen, “home to every genre of music, hosting some of the biggest names…

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News

The Chicago Community Trust recently awarded the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame $5,000 to support our efforts to create robust and diverse programming related to Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry. The…

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Gregory Leifel, Executive Director of the Sanfilippo Foundation, talks with Donald Evans, Founding Executive Editor of the CLHOF, about the beginnings of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame and the decade following their award ceremony…

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The board of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation has approved a three-year grant to the Chicago Literary Hall Of Fame to support general operations. The Donnelley Foundation makes "multi-year, general operating grants…

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Chicago Community Trust Acting Up Award

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Chicago, June 20, 2018 – The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (CLHOF) has been awarded a Chicago Community Trust (CCT) Acting Up grant to help fund its proposed “From the Porch of Gwendolyn Brooks” program.…

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CLHOF Installs Sculpture of Gwendolyn Brooks in Brooks Park.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Gwendolyn Brooks Park
4542 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60653

The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, in partnership with sculptor Margot McMahon, Chicago Park District, the Poetry Foundation, and Brooks Permissions, celebrated the landmark installation in Brooks Park. The installation…

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