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Blommer Chocolate to close Chicago factory Blommer will move its headquarters and a research and development center to the Merchandise Mart.

Welcome to Northwestern University at Stateville Inside this maximum security prison, a groundbreaking program offers inmates the chance to earn a degree from one of the country’s top schools. Some will never leave these walls. Here’s why it still matters.

Chicago Humanities is thrilled to welcome renowned Princeton University professor and New York Times best-selling author Eddie Glaude Jr. on April 27.

At Chicago Humanities, Glaude Jr. chats with Chicago natives and co-hosts of the Pushkin podcast Some of My Best Friends Are, Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen. Get your copy of We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For signed after the program 📖

🎟️ Grab your tickets now: https://bit.ly/4cv1Zpo
➡️ This program will have Open Captions and Assistive Listening Devices available

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in 1974, more than 3,000 women from across the country met in Chicago for a two-day conference to form the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Discussions for the organization had begun the previous summer, led by labor union leaders Olga M. Madar of Detroit and Addie Wyatt of Chicago. CLUW sought to organize women, increase their participation in unions, advance workplace fairness, and ensure working women’s voices in the political process. Today, 50 years later, the CLUW has members from 70 international and national unions across the United States.

Learn more about the CLUW and women’s labor actions in our online experience “ : Chicago Women and the Vote”: https://ow.ly/kzBC50QXTeF // Group of Coalition of Labor Union Women picketers with “No Wage Controls Roll Back Prices” sign, c. 1975. CHM, ICHi-039912

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/03/climate-migration-rust-belt-economy/677856/

America’s Climate Boomtowns Are Waiting Rising temperatures could push millions of people north.

Take a look at the current issue of Crain's Chicago Business in which our own Urban American historian Joshua Salzmann has written a very interesting piece about how Chicago may want to learn about the opportunities that may arise with the looming water crisis elsewhere. Congratulations, Professor Salzmann!

Chicago Field Museum Director Uses Titanosaur Skull To Hold Parking Space In Snow The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

New Chicago Music Venue The Salt Shed Opens This Summer at Morton Salt Complex The Salt Shed, a unique music venue opening at Chicago’s historic Morton Salt complex, will open this summer and feature newly announced outdoor concerts.

A Chicago Man Bought a Dilapidated South Side Bank for $1 and Turned It Into a Gorgeous Cultural Center Theaster Gates is an artist, urban planner, and professor and director at the University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life who believes in a culturally...

https://themetropole.blog/2022/01/19/unlocking-chicagos-history-a-guide-to-city-government-records/

Unlocking Chicago’s History: A Guide to City Government Records By Joshua Salzmann and Emiliano Aguilar In the fall of 2021, Northeastern Illinois University launched a web-based guide to help scholars conduct research using the city government records of Chica…

Meet White Sox 'Beer Helmet Guy' Jake Von Esh, The Jimmy Fallon Lookalike Who Has Become Bleacher Famous Jake Von Esh, the double Modelo-hatted Sox fan caught on camera last fall, was impersonated by Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show." Even the "Cane Guy" acknowledges, "Jake’s got the torch now."

Chicago Underground 1. In the spring of 1992, maintenance crews in Chicago found that a mysterious flood was filling the downtown area's extensive system of subbasements.