All Our Tragic: A Chicago Dionysia
All Our Tragic, a 12-hour long festive adaptation of Greek tragedy,...
Monthly Archives: February 2015
World’s Fairs of 1893 and 1933
The advertisements for the World’s Fairs of 1893...
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...
Pegasus, POETRY’s Mascot
How does an ancient mythical creature turn into a benchmark of...
Political satire invokes ancient sex worker
Satirical magazine Puck published this cartoon, “Phryne before the Chicago Tribunal,”...
A Phoenix Rising
After the Great Fire of 1871, the sight of devastated buildings with...
