Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, lower level, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Chicago IL 60605.
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, lower level, Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State Street, Chicago IL 60605.
Acclaimed historian Andrew J. Diamond returns to the library to discuss his new book titled Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City.
Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center.
Mr. Diamond is Professor of American Civilization at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he directs the Center for the Study of Politics and Society in the Anglophone World. He is the author of numerous works, including Mean Streets and Histoire de Chicago.
Seating in the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium is first come, first served (385 max.). Books are available for purchase and the author will autograph books at the conclusion of the program.