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Illinois Libraries Present: Matthew Desmond

In-person watch party at the main library

2025-05-13 19:00:00 2025-05-13 20:00:00 America/Chicago Illinois Libraries Present: Matthew Desmond Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. R Main Library - Lake Room

Tuesday, May 13
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-05-13 19:00:00 2025-05-13 20:00:00 America/Chicago Illinois Libraries Present: Matthew Desmond Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. R Main Library - Lake Room

Main Library

Lake Room

Join us to close out our fourth season with bestselling author Matthew Desmond in conversation with award-winning journalist, Natalie Moore. R

Virtual program offered at libraries across Illinois. These programs are always available virtually. Two ways to participate: In-person watch party with a virtual speaker or Zoom.

Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of the award-winning book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. The recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Desmond was named one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate” by Politico 50 in 2016. His research focuses on poverty in the United States, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography.

Natalie Moore is an award-winning journalist based in Chicago, whose reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, food injustice and violence. She is the author of the acclaimed The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation and co-author of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall and Resurgence of an American Gang. Moore is the recipient of Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award and a Studs Terkel Community Media Award among many others. Her work has helped shift the way Chicagoans today think about segregation in the region.

This event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present (ILP), a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility. To request accommodations, please email illinoislibrariespresent@gmail.com

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AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Adult |

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Lake Cook Room
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Sat, Jun 14, 11:00am - 11:45am
Lake Cook Room
Be amazed by the magical feats of El Mago in this family-friendly show. Presented in English and Spanish. Please choose one session to attend. TR