🦄👾🦄👾🦄👾🦄👾🦄👾🦄👾🦄 Unicorns and behooved magicians of all ilk are cordially invited to a NOLA style bar crawl/street parade through Pilsen! 9 APRIL 2026 6:30PM 1854 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60608 This event/performance will begin at the Pennywhistle at 6:30 and expects to march through the neighborhood, Harrison Park & select residential areas.... Read More
We're excited to join Under the Tree Podcast in welcoming Nancy Kurshan to the store for a conversation with Bill Ayers about Kurshan's book Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories. In Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories, longtime activist Nancy Kurshan offers a vivid, woman’s-eye view of seven decades of radical social change.... Read More
The Chicago Neighborhood Planting Project is back for it's annual tree giveaway. Beautify your street, lift your mood, and grow food for your neighbors by planting native fruit and nut trees. This year's trees are: American Persimmon American Plum Eastern Redbud all native to the region and edible! This project has helped facilitate the planting of over 3,000 trees in our region, and invites you to join in the effort.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Lisa Low to the store for a launch celebration for her new collection Replica. Stand-up comedy, a celebrity non-apology, observations of racism, and the slipperiness of nostalgia underpin Replica. In poignant, witty poems, Lisa Low navigates the tensions of solidarity and hostility in white spaces as she sets out to write differently about race. “The... Read More
In conjunction with In These Times magazine, join us to celebrate the launch of Molly Crabapple's new book. Here Where We Live is Our Country is the first popular history telling the dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Stuart Schrader and Robert Vargas to the store for discussion of Schrader's new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, a history of police unions that reveals how American law enforcement built a political movement that made cops untouchable. “A... Read More
Join us as we welcome Steven W. Thrasher and Adam Johnson to the store for a conversation about Thrasher's The Overseer Class and Johnson's How to Sell a Genocide. About The Overseer Class: The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022) is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain. Our... Read More