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CHICAGO HISTORIAN
JOE GUSTAITIS
1893
Chicago's Greatest Year
Tuesday, October 8, 5:30-8:30pm
The
Lounge at Iwan Ries
19 South Wabash
Cocktails at 5:30, presentation 6:00-6:30
followed by discussion and more cocktails.
$40 includes drinks, two cigars, and sandwiches.
Reservations
are required.
"In 1893, the 27.5 million visitors to the
Chicago World’s Fair feasted their eyes on the impressive
architecture of the White City, lit at night by thousands of
electric lights. In addition to marveling at the revolutionary
exhibits, most visitors discovered something else: beyond the
fair’s 633 acres lay a modern metropolis that rivaled the
world’s greatest cities. The Columbian Exposition marked
Chicago’s arrival on the world stage, but even without the
splendor of the fair, 1893 would still have been Chicago’s
greatest year." -- from the book jacket
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Joe
Gustaitis is a freelance writer and editor living in
Chicago. He is the author of many articles in the popular history
field. After working as an editor at Collier’s Year Book, he
became the humanities editor for Collier’s Encyclopedia. He
has also worked in television and won an Emmy Award for writing for
ABC-TV’s FYI program.
Dr. Gustaitis has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, and MA and PhD
degrees from Columbia University, all in the field of history.
He has published over
one hundred
articles on such subjects as popular history, current events, health
and medicine, sports, and biography.
He is the author of books for middle-school students, and a
contributor to high-school history textbooks for Prentice-Hall and
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. He is a contributor to the
Encyclopedia of Business and
Industry, and
is a freelance editor for
The Columbia Gazetteer
and the Oxford Spanish
Dictionary.
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About
the Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city clubs of Chicago is the discussion of
intellectual, social, legal, artistic, historical, scientific,
musical, theatrical, and philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately provocative individuals, all
under the beneficent influence of substantial amounts of tobacco
and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition and
extends it with its Informal Smokers,
University Series lectures, and Cigar Society Dinners,
in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and cigarettes,
appear as an important component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the Cigar Society's
mailing list, write to the Secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org.
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