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Join Live: Fireside Chat with Dr. Eve L. Ewing

2021-03-01 18:00:00 2021-03-01 19:00:00 America/Chicago Join Live: Fireside Chat with Dr. Eve L. Ewing Online -

Monday, March 01
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-03-01 18:00:00 2021-03-01 19:00:00 America/Chicago Join Live: Fireside Chat with Dr. Eve L. Ewing Online -

Join us for a visit with Dr. Eve L. Ewing, award-winning author and assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, as she shares perspectives on her work and the world in 2021. This conversation will be moderated by reporter and author Natalie Moore. 

Dr. Ewing is a sociologist of education whose research is focuses on racism, social inequality and urban policy, and the impact of these forces on American public schools and the lives of young people.

Dr. Ewing’s most recent work, 1919, is a unique collection of poems exploring the story of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919, an event largely neglected in modern discourse. Her first book of poems, Electric Arches, is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose, and was awarded the 2018 American Library Association Alex Award, among others. She is also the author of the 2018 nonfiction work, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, which examines the 2013 wave of targeted school closing in Chicago’s predominately low-income and African-American south side neighborhoods, resulting in severe educational inequity and a disproportionate lack of resources. She is currently continuing to write the Champions series for Marvel Comics and is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.

Natalie Moore covers segregation and inequality for Chicago’s WBEZ. Her enterprise reporting has tackled race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. Moore’s work has been broadcast on the BBC, Marketplace and NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of the 2016 Chicago Review of Books award for nonfiction and a Buzzfeed best nonfiction book of 2016. She is also co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation

Thank you to the independent booksellers who are supporting this event through online sales. While the virtual event will not include book signing, we encourage you to browse the selection of Dr. Ewing's and Moore’s titles at the Book Bin, the Book Stall, and Semicolon Bookstore.

Presented by Addison Public Library District, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Aurora Public Library District, Cook Memorial Public Library District, Gail Borden Public Library District, Glenview Public Library, Highland Park Public Library, Lake Villa Public Library, Oak Park Public Library, Skokie Public Library, Schaumburg Township District Library, and Wilmette Public Library.

This program will take place online on Zoom. After registering, you will receive a link to the Zoom webinar.

Join us for our Racial Justice Book Discussion on March 10 as we discuss Dr. Ewing's Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. Additional discussions will be added based on interest. (The March 8 discussion of Ghosts in the Schoolyard is full.)

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Tue, Jul 08 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Wed, Jul 09 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Thu, Jul 10 9:00AM to 9:00PM
Fri, Jul 11 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Sat, Jul 12 9:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jul 13 12:00PM to 5:00PM

About the library

The Schaumburg Township District Library serves in excess of 134,000 residents in portions of the municipalities Elk Grove Village, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Schaumburg and Streamwood. With over 1 million visitors each year, the library circulates over 2,000,000 items annually and is the second largest public library in the state of Illinois.

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Tue, Jul 22, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Wed, Jul 23, 1:00pm - 1:45pm
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Youth Program Room
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Adult Classroom

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Thu, Jul 24, 10:00am - 10:30am
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Craft Room
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Youth Program Room
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Storytime Room
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Program Room
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Tech Lab

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Mon, Aug 04, 10:00am - 10:30am
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Program Room
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The Commons

Tue, Aug 05, 10:00am - 12:00pm
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Tue, Aug 05, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Rasmussen Room

Wed, Aug 06, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Craft Room
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Wed, Aug 06, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Rasmussen South

Wed, Aug 06, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Cancelled
Wed, Aug 06, 5:00pm - 5:45pm

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Program Room,Teen
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Tech Lab

Thu, Aug 07, 10:00am - 11:00am
Youth Program Room

Thu, Aug 07, 10:00am - 11:00am
Adult Classroom
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Thu, Aug 07, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Tech Lab

Thu, Aug 07, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Digital Recording,Editing 1,Editing 2,Program Room
Registration opens Friday, August 1 2025 at 9:00am

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Fri, Aug 08, 10:00am - 11:30am
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Fri, Aug 08, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Sat, Aug 09, 9:30am - 11:00am
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Sat, Aug 09, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Craft Room,Storytime Room
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Tech Lab

Mon, Aug 11, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Program Room
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Tech Lab

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Tue, Aug 12, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
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