Mythic Significance
Above the doorway at 120 North La Salle Street a mosaic...
Category Archives: POLITICS
A Lysistrata for Chiraq
Lysistrata is a comic drama written by the Athenian dramatist Aristophanes. The ancient...
History of working people in antiquity begins in Chicago
Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co, a Chicago instiution that Studs...
A Socrates for Chicago’s Courthouse
Public art in the courthouse that once stood on...
Athena in Jackson Park
The 24-ft gilded woman in Jackson Park is a small replica...
Daley as Caesar? Mike Royko’s Boss
Was Mayor Richard J. Daley a metropolis-molding tyrant of Caesarian proportions?...
A Boxing Odysseus Wows Crowd at Hull House
Like the famously wily Odysseus, Jane Addams often needed to think...
Political satire invokes ancient sex worker
Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
