Events

Mercy Street Reading Series

Sunday, August 7, 2022
6 p.m.

via Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeivrDoiE9WRL9bvpZ0UF6LPcJ6XHDze

Our City: Chicago’s Poetic Landscape

Saturday, September 10, 2022
TBA

Printers Row Lit Fest
South Dearborn Street, from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street
Poetry Foundation Tent (details TBA)

37th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest

Saturday, September 10 and Sunday, September 11
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

South Dearborn Street
from Ida B. Wells to Polk Street

Rick Kogan: Fuller Award for lifetime achievement

Wednesday, October 5, 2022
7-9 p.m.

Chopin Theater
1543 W. Division Street
Chicago, IL 60642

Induction Ceremony (Class of 2021)

Thursday, November 3, 2022
6:30-7:45 p.m.

City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
Chicago, IL 60660

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…

Take a look at the poem Kathleen Rooney wrote for and about the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Also, jump over to our blog to read about Poems While You Wait.

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…

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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The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame has been selected as a finalist for the Oak Park - River Forest Chamber of Commerce Spotlight Award in the Community Character category. The winners will be announced at the OPRF Chamber of Commerce's annual Spotlight Awards ceremony, October 9, 5:00pm at the historic Nineteenth Century Club on Forest Ave., just north of Lake Street in Oak Park. For more information about the event, click here.

The OPRF Chamber of Commerce describes the awards on their website:

"The 3rd Annual Business Spotlight Awards recognizes and celebrates businesses and community organizations across six categories of leadership. The program is open to all businesses in the Oak Park, River Forest and surrounding communities.

Community Character

This is a business or organization reflective of our community - unique, creative, smart, one-of-a-kind, supportive, fun, successful. The kind that epitomizes the spirit of who we are."

Representatives of the CLHOF will attend the October 9 event.

"The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame is honored to be named a finalist for an Oak Park - River Forest Chamber of Commerce Spotlight Award," said Donald G. Evans, Founding Executive Director of the CLHOF. "We work hard to celebrate and preserve Chicago's great literary heritage through our events, website, literary tours, and outreach programs such as sponsoring Margot McMahon's Gwendolyn Brooks sculpture in Brooks Park, and the "From the Porch" poetry workshops for children, inspired by that sculpture."

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.…

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…

The Illinois Arts Council Agency (IACA) has awarded the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame a grant of $1,000 from Federal funds for general operating support. The Illinois Arts Council Agency is a government…