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Lee Bey, Executive Director of the Chicago Central Area Committee, gives an illustrated talk about Mayor Washington's key urban planning and public works initiatives which set the stage for a modern, resurgent Chicago that sadly, he did not live long enough to see. Recorded Thu

The Institute proudly co-presents this Chicago program, Celebrating African Women Writers, in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as part of their inaugural Writers from Africa & the Diaspora Festival in Ur

The idea to control the consumption of alcohol was developing for nearly a century before passage of an amendment to the Constitution. So what went wrong? How did an idea meant to improve not just people's lives but people themselves instead spawn an epidemic of lawlessness and violence?

Elizabeth Taylor, literary editor for the Chicago Tribune, leads a conversation with David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and editor of The New Yorker. Remnick discusses and signs his new book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.

The Field Museum and The Leakey Foundation sponsor a presentation by Dr. Jean Clottes, a Leakey Foundation grantee and prominent French prehistorian. Dr.

Imagine a society with many more walkers than strollers. In the years ahead, America will experience the effects of the remarkable increases in disability-free life expectancy and the enormous Baby Boom' generation, 76 million strong, will reach retirement age.

In the 1998 film "Pieces of Identity," Mani Kongo, king of a rural area of the Bakongo, travels to Belgium in search of his daughter with whom he has not been in contact for a long time.