Coming up

Robert Wallace, Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, will give a talk and a slide show about ancient Greek sex, on March 10.

Sam Sisodia, Director of the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago, will talk about the brain, in April.

Abraham Kocheril, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Electrophysiology at UIC, will explain how music (and wine) hath charms to soothe a savage breast.

Cigar Society Adventurers— there will be an outing to Chuck Hannon's estate in Lake Geneva in late May.

Bill Daley, Wine and Food Critic for the Chicago Tribune, will talk about wine and smoke, in early June.

Events sponsored by the Cigar Society in Exile include cocktails at 5:30pm, a lecture or reading starting at 6:00 sharp for about thirty minutes, followed by discussion.  We meet privately in the second-floor lounge of the Iwan Ries Building, at 19 South Wabash.

The Cigar Society in Exile Presents

Our Economic Situation Charles Wheelan, PhD Senior Lecturer in Economics University of Chicago Tuesday, February 24 5:30-8:30pm The Lounge at Iwan Ries 19 S. Wabash Av, 2d floor $40 inclusive covers the cost of the room, cocktails, cigars, and snacks.  Cash only.  Jacket and tie recommended; reservations required.    RSVP to the Secretary.

Charlie Wheelan (Dartmouth '88, Princeton M.P.A '93, U of C PhD '98, U Club '02) is the first candidate on the ballot in the special election to replace Rahm Emanuel in the Fifth Congressional District and is a lecturer in public policy at the University of Chicago. He teaches master’s level courses on the policy process, and was voted Professor of the Year in 2004.  Prior to joining the faculty at the U of C, Wheelan was Director of Policy and Communications for Chicago Metropolis 2020, a business-backed civic group promoting healthy regional growth in the Chicago area.  From 1997 to 2002, he was the Midwest correspondent for The Economist.  He has also written for the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and is a regular contributor to the “Motley Fool Radio Show” on NPR and to “848” on WBEZ.  Wheelan is the author of Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science and he is currently working on a public policy textbook.  He lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.  According to David Greising of the Tribune: "Charles Wheelan is hardly a stock character for Chicago's North Side 5th Congressional District.  Much of the district used to be Dan Rostenkowski's territory. Then Emanuel took over. It's a bare-knuckles, hard-nosed place where cigars, ward politics and the Chicago Way have always ruled."  Let's smoke a few cigars with Charlie and find out what he has to say.