Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Search results for keyword: books found in 207 News.

obituaries
  • by david hall
Don De Grazia, 'American Skin' author, Columbia College Chicago teacher, dead at 56

His acclaimed novel was published when he was 30, and he'd been guiding young writers ever since. He collapsed during a softball game and died.

small-business
  • by david hall
Caesar Pierogi & Cafe mixes it up with chocolate-filled pierogis, empanadas — and antique Polish books

The Portage Park restaurant run by a father-son team has grown its menu offerings since opening in 2022 and added a bookstore, selling Polish, Italian, French, Spanish and English books.

democracy
  • by david hall
Books teach and inspire us. Banning them is anti-democratic.

People who read don't censor books, writes Natalie Moore, who talked with the former head of the American Library Association about the current wave of book bans across the country.

obituaries
  • by david hall
Harriette Gillem Robinet, scientist, civil rights activist and lauded children's author, dies at 92

Writer believed that without knowing history, people can have no perspective on on life today.