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Chicago Humanities connects people to the ideas that shape and define us, and promotes the lifelong exploration of what it means to be human. The organizatio...

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Margaret Atwood Opens Her Book of Lives

Chefs Jesse Valenciana & Rick Bayless Celebrate Mexican Cuisine - September 21, 2025 NMMA

Disability Advocate and Online Creative Molly Burke Unseen - October 4, 2025 Illinois Tech

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour - November 13, 2025 Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Ron Chernow on the Humorous Life of Mark Twain

The Wrigley Building The Making of an Icon - October 4, 2025 Illinois Tech - Tellabs

Cheech Marin Culture, Comedy, and Chicano Art - September 21, 2025 Apollo's 2000

Kate McKinnon Secrets of the Purple Pearl - October 4, 2025 Illinois Tech - McCormick Auditorium

Nick Offerman Invites You to Join Us on October 18, 2025

Ed Helms on the World’s Biggest SNAFUs

U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey - Oct 26, 2024 Ryan Center for the Musical Arts

Claudia Rankine with Shamel Pitts - Nov 2, 2024 Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Jeff Hiller in Conversation with Special Guest Murray Hill - June 13, 2025 The Den Theatre

Heavy Pages Press with Andrew & Kelsey McClellan - May 10, 2025 Co-Prosperity

Kristen Kish Accidentally on Purpose - May 10, 2025 Ramova Theatre

Chris Hayes on the Attention Economy - Mar 17, 2025 Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Heather Cox Richardson Democracy Awakening - Apr 27, 2025 Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Timothy Snyder On Freedom - April 27, 2025 Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Ocean Vuong The Emperor of Gladness - May 22, 2025 Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Ocean Vuong Uses the Sentence as a Tool to Understand Deep Mystery

Leslie Odom, Jr. on Learning that Love is Being Kind to Yourself

Philosopher Agnes Callard Has Some Questions About Questions

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on Abundance - April 1, 2025 UIC Dorin Forum

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Wonder What You Will Build for the Future

How Classic Painted Signs Help Us Time Travel with Heavy Pages Press

Mini Tapes The Journey is the Destination for the Jewish Museum of Chicago

Hebru Brantley on His Chicago Murals, Fine Art, and Everything in Between

Paul Reiser's Comedy Evolution

Joy Reid Shares and Makes History

Mini Tapes Last Week Tonight's Ali Barthwell on Chicago, Comedy, and Playing to the Top of the...