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Upcoming Programs & Events
Week of Events
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Second Friday Lecture: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
Second Friday Lecture: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
Friday, October 13 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Carl Smith The Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871 which destroyed the heart of the country’s rising inland metropolis and left a third of its population homeless, is one of history’s great disasters. If anything, the city’s rapid recovery was even more remarkable, revealing both […]
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The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm
The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm
Saturday, October 14 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Speaker: Steve Acker Steve Acker’s newest novel, The Fight for a Gettysburg Farm, tells the story of the Sherfy Farm during the Battle of Gettysburg. From the family that called the farm home to the Union and Confederate units that battled across its acres, this exhaustively researched story gives […]
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Caring for the Great Lakes with Liz Sutton
Caring for the Great Lakes with Liz Sutton
Saturday, October 14 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Free Do you know the scope of the plastic pollution in the Great Lakes? We are lucky enough to live on one of the largest freshwater sources in the world yet half of all plastic waste in the Great Lakes is in Lake Michigan. Learn about the […]
