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A collection of oral histories of descendant of Oak Park and River Forest's oral histories. Oral histories address a broad spectrum of topics ranging from farming, log cabins, Ernest Hemingway, the women's rights' movement and schools. Over 150 photographs accompany the interviews to provide an oral history of a visual picture of early village life.

This book is a series of candid portraits accompanied by poetry and monlogues given by the subjects. The words of some have been mixed and matched with others to tell new and differnt stories that still represent the collective Chicago Younker seeks to represent.

A collection of self-portrait photos by Chicago photographer Suzette Bross, all taken in the last stages of her 2003 pregnancy with her daughter. "[T]his project considers the implications of the most radical physical changes her pregnancy produced" (from the introduction, by art historian James Yood of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago).

Catalog for an exhibition of paintings by Chicago imagist Jim Nutt, held at the Phyllis Kind Gallery from May 10-June 11, 1991. All are face portraits. Photography by William H. Bengtson.

Catalog of an exhibition by Chicago-based sculptor Ellen Rothenberg at Gallery 312. The art focuses on the life and diary of Anne Frank.

Catalog of an exhibition in 2004 by sculptor Christine Tarkowski at the Hyde Park Art Center. Includes an essay by Hamza Walker.

More than eighty poems by suburban Batavia poet Jason Sturner (a.k.a. Jason E. Schlismann) under his other nom de plume, "jason e." Subject matter includes love and the natural world.

Catalog of an exhibition of paintings by Chicago-based figure painter Chuck Walker at the Hyde Park Art Center

Catalog of an exhibition of the sculpture, drawing and print work of Chicago-based artist Lincoln Schatz. Includes an essay by Italian art critic Achille Bonito Oliva.

Catalog of an exhibition of the sculpture of Chicago artist Bernard Williams at the Hyde Park Art Center in 2005. "For the first time, Williams has created a series of sculptures and drawings that reconfigure well-known architectural embellishments into freestanding sculptures in-the-round. These careful arrangements of organic patterns and bold lines salvaged from local buildings are totems of American cultural heritage." Includes curriculum vitae.