“vigilance against the new appearance / of old growth / has never been enough /…

A Conversation with Award-Winning Youth Poet Brooks Lansana Listen to the conversation… Conversation Transcript Brooks…

The Public Humanities are How We Move from “Divide and Conquer” to “Define and Empower”…

     Local elections occurred last Tuesday, April 6, in many communities throughout Illinois. Many…

We hope you enjoy this end-of-year message from Executive Director Gabe Lyon—and on behalf of…

November 23, 2020   Dear Friends, As the holdiay season begins, we are at an intersection…

We need another Works Project Administration to support more theater, public art, poetry, historic preservation…

For over twenty years, Illinois Humanities has been proud to offer The Odyssey Project,  a…

Late last month, we caught up with Catalina Maria Johnson, Chicago-based music journalist and Illinois…

“We stood about in the Sampson yard, not close together as people huddle in the…