Friends of Libraries Week
Join the staff of the Columbia College Chicago Library as we celebrate Friends of Libraries Week, October 18 – October 24, 2009.
Friends of Libraries Week (sponsored by Friends of Libraries, USA) is a celebration of Friends of Libraries programs around the country and an opportunity to recognize friends members for their support of libraries.
The Friends of the Library is open to everyone and student memberships begin at only $10.00. Other membership levels begin at $50.00. Funds received through the Friends of the Library will be used to help build the Library's collections.
More Info
For more information about the Friends of the Library program, contact Kim Hale at 312-344-7355 or khale@colum.edu.
An Ongoing Legacy: The Burnham Plan--From the City Beautiful Movement to Daley's Post-Modernist Chicago
Dominick Pacyga, PhD
Ferguson Lecture Hall
600 S. Michigan Avenue, 1st Floor
This program is free and open to the public
Dominic A. Pacyga received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1981. He has authored, or co-authored, four books concerning Chicago 's history, including Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago (1991), Chicago: City of Neighborhoods with Ellen Skerrett (1986), Chicago: A Historical Guide to the Neighborhoods (1979) with Glen Holt, Chicago's Southeast Side (1998) with Rod Sellers. He has lectured widely on topics ranging from urban development to labor history, immigration, and racial and ethnic relations, and has appeared in both the local and national media. Pacyga has been a member of the Liberal Education Department at Columbia College/Chicago since 1984. His new book, Chicago: A Biography, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press.