May 17, 2025 11:00am

From the Archives: Preserving your Family History, Chicago Public Library

Spring cleaning season is in full swing. Have you organized your closets, basements or attics? If so, you might have found historic family documents. Not sure what to do with these precious materials? Join Chicago Public Library for a workshop on how to preserve your family history. Special Collec… Read More >

March 8, 2025 11:00am

From the Archives: Chicago History through Photographs Chicago Public Library

Join us for a glimpse at over a century of Chicago images as created by professional and citizen photographers that tell the city’s story through everyday and extraordinary scenes. The presentation will draw from multiple archival collections in Special Collections to show people, places and neighbo… Read More >

February 6, 2025 12:00pm

Conversations with Chicago Collections: Women and Leadership Archives Loyola University Chicago

CCC is proud to present its next installment of Conversations with Chicago Collections with Emily Reiher, Director, Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago. Come discover how these archives which contain over 200 collections covering art, education, social justice, politics, religio… Read More >

January 29, 2025 12:00pm

The Impact and Importance of Chicago's Art Fairs and Festivals: A Discussion with Chicago Artists

Join the discussion with Chicago artists Cranston Knight, (Photographer, Poet) Carmen Perez-Stoppert​(Sculptor, Jewelry) Ken Reif​(Painter) as they share their experiences with Chicago art fairs and festivals. Learn of the impact Chicago's art fairs have had on these artists' careers and the importa… Read More >

December 17, 2024 12:00pm

Join the discussion with the curators of CCC's latest digital exhibit A Snapshot of Chicago Art Fairs: 1948-2004

CCC is proud to release on 12/17 its latest digital exhibit, A Snapshot of Chicago Art Fairs: 1948-2004. Curated by Autumn Mather and Molly Szymanski, the exhibit features information on 22 art fairs and visual art festivals throughout Chicago and presents materials from 16 archival collections in t… Read More >

December 5, 2024 12:00pm

Cait Coker on “We Are Each Other’s Harvest:” Gwendolyn Brooks and the Formation of the Black Literary Canon

August 24, 1949: Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks is published. It is her second volume of poetry, and readers admire and struggle with its technical forms, its atomizations, and critiques of racial life in Black America. At the book’s center is a forty-three-stanza poem called “The Anniad” in which … Read More >