Meet the Readers: Bill Savage

Bill Savage teaches courses on Chicago history, literature and culture at Northwestern University and the Newberry Library of Chicago. At the Newberry, he co-curated their recent exhibit on Mike Royko, and he also works as an editor at the University of Chicago Press. He has published book reviews, op-eds, and essays in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal (neither of which paid him in a timely way [or at all], and both of which he is now deeply ashamed of), the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, the Chicago Reader, Chicago Magazine, and other publications with Chicago on their mastheads. He has been working for a very long time on a book about Chicago’s street grid, delving into how its quirks tell the history of class warfare, racial and ethnic conflict, and the real “Chicago way”: Half-Assing It. Any brief bio he writes has “Chicago” as its most common word.

Please join Bill and our other awesome readers on Tuesday, February 4, 2025 in the upstairs bar at Hopleaf. Doors open at 7pm, and the show starts at 7:30. It's free, and 21-and-over. Please RSVP on Facebook.