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On a mission to improve every aspect of his life — from work to love to family — bestselling humor author A.J. Jacobs immersed himself in a series of radical lifestyle experiments.

Over his 15 years as a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas interviewed some of the most accomplished people in America, and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech.

 One of America’s preeminent investigative reporters and nonfiction authors, Bob Woodward has won nearly every journalism award in the nation, including the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for his work with his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein on the Watergate scandal.  G

Louis Menand, a trenchant observer of the forces that shape higher education, says that “trying to reform the contemporary university is like trying to get on the Internet with a typewriter.”

Mark Kirk has been one of Illinois’ two U.S. senators since November 2010, when he won a special election to serve out the final weeks of Obama’s Senate term. He also won a regular six-year term that started in January.

Author, political consultant, and social critic Naomi Wolf will present “Citizen Empowerment 101” at Elmhurst College. Admission is free and the public is invited.