and the camera flashes. i will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. and with chicago great fire. and and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. you are good to come out on a hot day like this. a big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. my brother is here. where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. i came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. what i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. and we ve got this job on northwestern. i was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i don t remember the exact way it happened and somehow before the internet and emails, there he is. your book is better. sitting up
handlebars. i tell you, you can t make stuff like that up. you can watch this interview in its entirety along with other oral histories, c-span.org/history. welcome to the 30 sixth annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. before we begin. and the camera flashes. i will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. and with chicago great fire. and and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. you are good to come out on a hot day like this. a big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. my brother is here. where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. i came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. what i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth
annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. before we begin. and the camera flashes. i will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. and with chicago great fire. and and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. you are good to come out on a hot day like this. a big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. my brother is here. where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. i came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. what i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. and we ve got this job on northwestern. i was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i don t remember the exact way it
annual state of the state address. this is 30 minutes. good afternoon. llerton, steven madden, leader brady, lieutenant governor sanguinetti, attorney general madigan, comptroller mendoza, treasurer fredericks, members of the general assembly, distinguished guests and members of the media, welcome. to the members of the national guard, our servicemen and women, and our veterans, thank you on behalf of of a most grateful state. [applause] thank you. god bless you. to the taxpayers of illinois, it is an honor to serve you. my report on the state of the ,tate, this bicentennial year begins with a reflection on what has been born, built and grown in illinois. our history is rich. we were the first state to ratify the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery. presidents lincoln, grant, reagan and obama called illinois home. we taught the world how to rebuild a city when we scraped the sky after the chicago fire. we invented the twinkie and a started the first nuclear chain
hello and welcome to lefty books for her book with carol andersen. this is of course not left the books i am host for left bank books i would like to thank our cosponsor for the evening, the ferguson public library. their work and activism is incredible and inspiring. they are wonderful partner to have. (-left-paren both postoperative infinitives with your help that we were able to continue bringing in your favorite authors. when you support us, you reinvest in your community because tax dollars are going into schools, streets, libraries and give credibility to higher rates. get back to our community by partnering with charities and organizations i m also doing a summer fun raising for this program. the river city readers served single public school children died building their own home library and encouraging literacy. the students get to keep five books each year in meet the authors of culturally relevant new books. i would like to ask you to make a donation tonight if an