Events
Chicago Fit/Lit Challenge
Monday, July 13 through Monday, Aug. 17
1 p.m.
Zoom Meeting Room and Discord Channel.
In this Summer of Covid, we find ourselves struggling to maintain a healthy body and mind while also entertaining ourselves. Parents, especially, want to engage their children with activities outside the television screen. Our new…
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After Hours, a journal of Chicago writing and arts, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. In honor of its latest publication, #40, AH will hold a virtual reading with three featured readers followed by…
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The story of the Chicago blues runs so deep as to be almost mythical. From Junior Wells to Buddy Guy, the Maxwell Street Market to Kingston Mines, from Chess Records to Alligator Records, blues has…
read moreJotham Burrello in Conversation with Patricia Ann McNair
Saturday, September 12, 2020
6 p.m.
The Book Cellar via Zoom
4736 N. Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
Jotham Burrello discusses his new historical novel, Spindle City, with author Patricia Ann McNair. CLHOF is co-sponsoring the event.
read moreInduction Ceremony (Class of 2019)
Thursday, September 24, 2020
6:30-7:45 p.m.
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660
Since our inaugural ceremony in 2010, the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame has annually inducted a class of new authors. In this, our 10th season, we will induct and honor four authors into the pantheon…
read moreFuller Award: Reginald Gibbons
Thursday, October 29, 2020
5-7:30 p.m.
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
Reginald Gibbons's prolific writing career has included publication of ten full-length poetry collections; a short story collection and a novel; numerous essays, reviews, columns, and translations; and as editor a myriad of anthologies. His…
read moreGreat Chicago Books Club: Kathleen Rooney
POSTPONED: RESCHEDULED DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Private Residence
Chicago, IL (Streeterville neighborhood)
The Great Chicago Books Club kicks off its 2020 calendar with another.....great Chicago book. Kathleen Rooney's O, Democracy! is not only a contemporary classic, but it touches on so many themes percolating in…
read moreFuller Award: Luis Alberto Urrea
POSTPONED: RESCHEDULED DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
6-8:30 p.m.
National Museum of Mexican Art
1852 W. 19th Street
Chicago, IL 60608
A 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, Luis Alberto Urrea is the critically acclaimed and best-selling author of 17 books, winning numerous awards for his…
read moreNighthawks
POSTPONED: RESCHEDULED DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
7 p.m.
Hamburger Mary's
155 S. Oak Park Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60302
Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks, which hangs in the Art Institute, has been the subject of much literary exploration. Stuart Dybek and Joyce Carol Oates are among the authors who've used…
read moreLiterary Chicago (A Bus Tour)
POSTPONED: RESCHEDULED DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
TBA
Chicago Tribune
435 Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
For nearly a century and a half, Chicago has been the setting for important literary works and the setting that enables authors to get that work done. On this four-hour bus tour, which includes stops…
read moreGreat Chicago Books Club: Timuel D. Black
POSTPONED: RESCHEDULED DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
4-6 p.m.
Private Residence
Chicago, IL (Hyde Park neighborhood)
Timuel D. Black, at 101 years old, continues to add to his legacy as a remarkable Civil Rights activist, oral historian, educator, and writer. His 2019 memoir, Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of…
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