In response to COVID-19, most Chicago Studies programming will continue to be virtual for Winter 2021. Event recordings will be made available whenever possible, with permission of our presenters. See individual listings for more details and registration information.
2020 brought a series of crises to Chicago's collective experience: a new mayoral administration promising to challenge an entrenched city bureaucracy; the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic woes; an ever-worsening climate crisis and increasingly extreme weather; an increasingly toxic and unproductive political discourse all levels of society; and a long-overdue reckoning about systemic racism, accompanied by widespread protest and unrest. Our Winter Quarter programming, anchored by the first half of a distinguished lectures series, Chicago Futures, and a parallel series of Chicago Conversations, will explore the possibilities for change these forces have introduced into Chicago's future. Join us for programming and events that consider the Chicago that yet may be, and the ways you can contribute to and even shape it.
