Tuesday, May 17, 2022 1-2 p.m. | Zoom Webinar | Cost: FREE Join Geographic Society of Chicago and our guide, Derek J. Barthel, as we travel to Bolivia, where we will experience the bustling cities of La Paz and El Alto; trek to the snowcapped peaks of Huayna Potosi and Pico Austria; and experience the […]
This illustrated presentation will look at one of the Chicago’s most written about neighborhoods, The Back of the Yards, as well as the industrial base that created it, and still plays a formative role in its development, the Union Stock Yard. Dominic Pacyga, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia College in Chicago, will trace […]