Nathan Lerner and Chicago's New Bauhaus on exhibit in Paris

Studs Terkel dead, but so alive

Chicago's Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination to be President of the United States

Oh no, Oprah to go!
"Opah," exclaim the Greek Restaurants' waiters as they ignite your cheese pie before serving it. That's the way people are pronouncing "Oprah" at the moment. Today on her show she will tell viewers that it will all come to an end in 2010-2011, the 25th year of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" which began as a morning talk show on WLS-TV (Chicago's channel 7) before Harpo Productions was founded shortly

The Poetry behind the City
The Chicago Poetry Tour, narrated by Scott Simon, is now on-line, and you can listen to poetry read by the poets, as you see the sights.LinkChicago Poetry Tour (www.poetryfoundation.org)

Chicago gets its very own biography
Cities have a life of their own, and Dominic Pacyga has just published Chicago, A Biography (University of Chicago Press, 2009). The cover flap claims, "what distinguishes this book from the many others . . . is its author's uncommon ability to illuminate the lives of Chicago's ordinary people." The book contains numerous illustrations of interest (see the photo of the African-American baseball

Who can afford college in Chicago?
Yes, that's the question that must be asked by those going to college in Chicago. It's an urgent question. It costs approximately ten times more to get a B.A. or B.S. (4 year degree) today than it did thirty years ago. How much more can tuition rise? Is higher education now only reserved for a class of the wealthy elite? School loans of yester-year were tough enough to repay (President

Chicago loses bid, but holds head high
The Obamas made international news for their trip to Copenhagen, in support of the Chicago Olympic bid. No American president and his wife had ever gone to such lengths to be granted the opportunity of hosting the Olympic games. Even after Chicago lost the bid and Rio celebrated their victory, Mayor Richard Daley said, according to the Chicago Tribune, that he had "no prouder moment than