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Visible Mending for Knitwear
2026-03-03 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Fiber Friends Studios, Inc., 1744 E 55th Street, Chicago, 60615
Visible Mending for Knitwear
Learn to mend your knitwear with style. Bring one or two knit items and repair them in class. Students will receive a demonstration of knitwear mending techniques such as woven darning, Swiss darning/duplicate stitch, Scotch darning, and mattress stitch. A general overview of basic embroidery on knitwear will also be provided. Mending materials included.
Level: Beginner. All skill levels
Pre-requisites: None, but basic knitting and embroidery skills will come in handy. Ages 15+.
Included in class: A simple starter kit – 1 Clover darning yarn card, scrap yarn, printed technique instructions, and a tapestry needle.
What to bring: Bring one or two knit items that need repairs.

Robert J. Sampson - "Marked by Time" - Stephen Raudenbush, Reuben Jonathan Miller
2026-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Seminary Co-op Book Store, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Robert J. Sampson – “Marked by Time” – Stephen Raudenbush, Reuben Jonathan Miller
Robert J. Sampson will discuss his new book Marked by Time. He will be joined in conversation by Stephen Raudenbush and Reuben Jonathan Miller. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion.
At the Co-op
RSVP HERE
About the Book: A leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.
Between 1970 and 2020, the United States experienced a dramatic rise in crime and incarceration, followed by an unexpected decline. Along with plummeting violence came reductions in substance use, car accidents, child poverty, and lead exposure. By 2020, incarceration rates hit a twenty-five-year low, with African Americans benefiting the most. Yet these positive shifts have not registered in public discourse or policies, which continue to rely on outdated studies and reductive narratives of moral character and personal responsibility.
A major reason for this oversight is how social scientists study youth development–typically through single-birth-cohort approaches that fail to capture generational change. In a pioneering three-decade study of over one thousand Chicago children across multiple cohorts, Robert J. Sampson challenges this convention. He finds that children with similar self-control and family backgrounds, born just a decade apart, experienced dramatically different life paths. Strikingly, children born in the mid-1980s faced twice the likelihood of arrest by their mid-twenties than those born ten years later.
This research reframes deeply ingrained assumptions about ongoing social decline and the importance of individual fortitude. Sampson spotlights the role of shifting social conditions and structural change in driving measurable improvements in youth trajectories, along with new risks that threaten these gains.
The era into which a child is born shapes their future as profoundly as race, upbringing, or neighborhood. To rethink progress, inequality, and policy, we must first acknowledge how time itself leaves a transformative mark on individual lives.
About the Author: Robert J. Sampson is the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and founding director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. Previously, he taught at the University of Chicago. Professor Sampson is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Society of Criminology, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and, as Corresponding Fellow, the British Academy. Former President of the American Society of Criminology, he received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology.

About the Interlocuters: Stephen Raudenbush is the Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology, the College and the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the recipient of the American Educational Research Association award for Distinguished Contributions to Educational Research.
Reuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the Crown Family School and in the Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity, and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. In 2022, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Event Location:

Seminary Co-op Bookstores
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

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Miss Julie
2026-03-01 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-22 19:30 - 21:30 and 1 more date | Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Miss Julie
August Strindberg’s Miss Julie is a confrontation of class, gender, and desire at the turn of the twentieth century that’s as relevant today as when it was first written.
Miss Julie wants to abandon her upper-class, aristocratic life and escape the expectations that trap her. Jean, her servant, wants to climb the social ladder and rise through the ranks of society. Over the course of a wine-soaked evening, the two jockey for position, using sex, status, and strategy to collide and combust.
Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent directs one of Strindberg’s most celebrated works, interrogating the limitations of politics and position and the tension between who we are and who we want to be.
Accessible Performances:

Touch Tour: Saturday, February 28 at 12:30pm
Audio Description and ASL Interpretation: Saturday, February 28 at 2:00pm
Open Captioning: Sunday, March 1 at 2:00pm

Jeopardy Bar League at Truth Be Told
2026-03-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Truth Be Told, 1227 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL, United States
Jeopardy Bar League at Truth Be Told
Get ready for Jeopardy Bar League, a live version of the iconic TV show, at Truth be Told, Sundays from 6 – 8 pm starting November 16.
See you there!

Neighborhood Skates - Free Skateboarding Lessons
2026-03-01 12:00 - 14:00, 2026-02-22 12:00 - 14:00 | IL
Neighborhood Skates – Free Skateboarding Lessons
Neighborhood Skates expands skateboarding access on Chicago’s South Side through free, inclusive, year-round programming and community infrastructure improvements. We use skateboarding as a tool for confidence, creative expression, and belonging.
We hold free youth sessions in our indoor skatepark at the University of Chicago campus every Sunday, 12-2 PM, from January 11 – March 1.
Our sessions are best suited for youth ages 7-12 just starting out in skateboarding.
Helmets and wrist guards are required. We will have skateboards, helmets, wrist guards, knee pads, and elbow pads available to borrow for free.
In order to participate in our youth sessions, you must book a session and fill out our Youth Participation Registration Form.

Hyde Park Farmers Market
2026-03-01 09:00 - 14:00, 2026-02-22 09:00 - 14:00 | Hyde Park Bank Parking Lot, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Hyde Park Farmers Market
The South East Chicago Commission and Special Service Area #61 proudly present the Hyde Park Farmers Market, thanks to the partnership of Hyde Park Bank. The new market reveals an entirely fresh look with all new logistics, giving residents and visitors a chance to shop on the weekends and experience an infusion of healthy food, lifestyles, arts and culture.
Shoppers will find fresh produce from local Illinois farms, freshly baked breads and desserts, beautiful plants, packaged foods, personal beauty supplies, and traditional farmers market fare. Several market vendors accept Mastercard and Visa, LinkUp, and SNAP payments in addition to cash.

The Hyde Park Farmers Market:

Each Sunday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
1516 E 54th St – 54th Street and Old Lake Park Ave West
(Hyde Park Bank parking lot)
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The Market begins with the grand opening on Sunday, June 7 and the season continues through Sunday, September 27, 2025. You are invited to experience the new energy, entertainment, community engagement and a fantastically-curated collection of vendors.

X-Men Photoshoot at University of Chicago
2026-02-28 14:00 - 17:00 | Hutchinson Commons, 1133 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
Join us for an indoor X-Men themed photoshoot at the University of Chicago’s Hutchinson Commons!
Bring your best X-Man or X-villain to pose in the ancient hallways and by the fireplace this building offers!
Please be considerate of the campus students and use your inside voices! Also, please consider bringing a $10 tip for our wonderful photographer who will be providing us edited photos in the weeks after!

Knitting 201: Design Your Own Intarsia Mitts
2026-02-28 13:00 - 17:00 | Fiber Friends Studios, Inc., 1744 E 55th Street, Chicago, 60615
Knitting 201: Design Your Own Intarsia Mitts
Play with colors and shapes to create your own unique design! Students will use sketching as a jumping-off point to create a chart for their own intarsia mitts design. After learning to calculate the measurements for their mitts, students will begin the pattern in class and learn the fundamentals of the intarsia colorwork technique. Students will also receive a demonstration on seaming with mattress stitch. All materials included.
Level: Advanced beginner.
Pre-requisites: Knitting, purling, casting on, and binding off. Ages 15+.
Included in class: Four skeins of The Fibre Co. Lore Minis (colors chosen in class). Worksheets and stitch markers.
What to bring: US 4 and US 6 straight needles and a tapestry needle. (available to purchase separately in the shop)

South Side Fireflies
2026-02-28 11:00 - 12:00 | UChicago Arts Incubator, 301 E. Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
South Side Fireflies
South Side Fireflies is back on the Arts Block!
South Side Fireflies is a free early childhood music program that introduces toddlers and preschoolers to sound and play through the Earth, Wind & Fire songbook. Led by teaching artists Shanta Nurullah, Zahra Baker, Angel Bat Dawid and Julian Otis, Fireflies is a place for families to gather on Saturday mornings for music and fun on the Arts Block.
Presented by Arts + Public Life in partnership with Music Moves Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music’s place-based, youth-focused, intergenerational initiative that aims to inspire, restore, and transform communities by providing access to high-quality arts education, concerts, and workforce readiness through partnerships with community organizations, schools, and other institutions located in South and West side neighborhoods.
*This program is most suitable for children ages 1-5, but all age groups are welcome to participate.
**Registration is not required, but encouraged to receive email updates and reminders about the other dates in this series.

The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry
2026-02-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Hyde Park Union Church, 5600 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637
The Hyde Park Kenwood Food Pantry
The food pantry, located at Hyde Park Union Church, provides nonperishable groceries and limited refrigerated and frozen foods to 500 to 800 people every month on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm.
We serve the area of 39th – 63rd St., Cottage Grove east to Lake Michigan, and patrons can come twice a month. All will be served on their first visit, regardless of residency. If you are looking for food outside of our service area or hours, you can visit the website of the Greater Chicago Food depository to find additional services.
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Volunteers order food, unload deliveries, pre-pack bags and distribute food. ​If you would like to volunteer, please contact the Church Office or Margy Mitchell, the Food Pantry coordinator.
Time and Location
Every Saturday (including Christmas, New Year’s Day, and July 4th) from 10 am to 1 pm;
Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S. Woodlawn — enter by the side door at 1169 E. 56th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

Trivia Night - Call and Response Books
2026-02-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Call and Response Books, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Trivia Night – Call and Response Books
Think you know it all? Put your knowledge to the test at our monthly trivia night! February’s trivia night will be on Friday, February 27 at 7 PM—come with a team or ready to make new friends! Questions will span a variety of categories (but this is a bookstore, so of course there will be a few book-related questions)!
Masks Required

Listening to the Stars: Turning Constellations Into Music
2026-02-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 5845 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
February 27, 2026 | 7:00PM
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
In this interdisciplinary session led by marimbist, vibraphonist and composer, Patricia Brennan, we explore the intersection of astronomy and music theory through a new system that translates the constellations of the night sky into musical content. By superimposing constellations onto the circle of fifths, we can assign musical notes, intervals, and rhythmic values to the geometry of the sky. This session invites participants to view the night sky as a living score. Participants will explore examples demonstrating how constellations like Aquarius or Andromeda can be “heard” through musical translation. No background in music theory or astronomy is required, just curiosity and a love for the stars.
Following the presentation in Fulton Recital Hall, participants will be invited to grab some cocoa and cookies and head over to the Ryerson Observatory.
This event is best for families with children in grades 5-12.
Free admission
Presented in partnership by the University of Chicago Department of Music and the Ryerson Astronomical Society.

Kindergarten Drop In at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School
2026-02-27 09:00 - 11:00 | St. Thomas the Apostle School, 5467 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, 60615, United States
Kindergarten Drop In at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School
🎒 Kindergarten Drop-In at STA
Join us for a special Kindergarten Drop-In Event at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School!
📅 Friday, February 27, 2026⏰ 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM📍 St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School
Future Kindergarten families are invited to stop by and experience STA in action. Visit a live classroom, explore hands-on learning, meet our teacher and school leadership, and learn more about our faith-centered academic program.
This is a wonderful opportunity to see how we nurture the whole child — academically, socially, and spiritually.
✨ Now enrolling for the 2026–2027 school year.Limited Kindergarten seats available.
We look forward to welcoming you! 💚
Link: https://forms.gle/pcmYRRy4Gd3mwv5C9

The Fragrance Bar - Suuri Design
2026-02-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Suuri Design, 5225 S. Harper Court, Chicago, IL, United States
The Fragrance Bar – Suuri Design
Join us for a 45-minute BYOB immersive Fragrance Workshop where you’ll design your own oil-based roller fragrance—crafted with intention and completely unique to you.
In this experience, you’ll learn the art of perfume creation while exploring the role of top, middle, and base notes in scent blending. With over 25 curated fragrance oils to choose from, you’ll layer your favorites to create a scent that feels personal and memorable. To deepen your creation, you’ll have the option to infuse your perfume with botanicals that align with your energy and intention.

All materials included
Lasts approx. 45 minutes
BYOB – (wine and beer only) we have openers and glassware covered
Please arrive 10 minutes early to settle in and get inspired

*All event purchases are final sale and if you need to reschedule, it must be done within 48 hours of the scheduled class. Just give us a call at 312.268.2082
Address: 5225 S. Harper Ct., Chicago, IL 60615
Parking: 53rd Street and Harper Avenue have metered parking. The closest parking garage is Harper Court Public Garage at 5222 S. Lake Park Avenue (between 52nd and 53rd Street)
Can’t make it? Please let us know if you’re unable to attend, and we will work with you to reschedule! We are not able to offer refunds for any event purchases.
Questions? Feel free to call or email: 312-268-2082/ asmith@suuridesign.com
Click HERE to register

Tipsy Trivia at Daisy's Po-Boy and Tavern
2026-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Daisy’s Po-Boy and Tavern, 5215 S. Harper Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Tipsy Trivia at Daisy’s Po-Boy and Tavern
Join us at Daisy’s Po-Boy and Tavern every Tuesday for an exciting evening of interactive trivia hosted by Ben! Experience six engaging rounds where all questions and answers are presented on TVs via PowerPoint, making it easy for everyone to follow along and participate. Each round features picture clues to help your team crack the answers, adding a fun visual twist to the challenge.
Enjoy food and drink specials throughout the evening!
May: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
June: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

Canto-Kójo Open Mic - Call and Response Books
2026-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Call and Response Books, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Canto-Kójo Open Mic – Call and Response Books
Our next Canto-Kójo open mic session is Tuesday, February 24 at 7 PM, hosted by our amazing friends I.S. Jones and Yazud Brito-Milan!
In Yorùbá, the word “kójo” means “to gather”. In Spanish, “canto” means “to sing.” In our efforts to gather community together, we hope to make something new sing.
Revel in the spoken and written word with us—bring a poem, a song, a short story, anything that’s on your heart! All are welcome and encouraged regardless of experience levels! Featured reader to be announced shortly!

Knitting 102: Barley Hat
2026-02-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Fiber Friends Studios, Inc., 1744 E 55th Street, Chicago, 60615
Knitting 102: Barley Hat
Learn to knit the Tin Can Knits Barley hat! Students will learn the basics of casting on, knitting, purling, and decreasing while in the round in this three-course series.
Level: Adventurous beginner
Pre-requisites: Prior knowledge of knitting and purling. Ages 15+.
Included in class: One skein of Berocco Lanas (color to be chosen at time of class). Pattern.
What to bring: US 6 16” circular needles, US 8 16” circular needles, US 8 DPNs (available to purchase separately at time of class)

First, Breathe Healing Arts Series
2026-02-23 18:00 - 19:30 | UChicago Arts Incubator, 301 E. Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
First, Breathe Healing Arts Series
First, Breathe: Healing Arts Series is a movement and arts-based program rooted in creativity, community care, and embodied storytelling.
First, Breathe: Healing Arts Series is a movement and arts-based program rooted in creativity, community care, and embodied storytelling. Hosted by Arts + Public Life and led by certified yoga instructor Rhya Moffitt, the project combines culturally grounded bodywork with artmaking practices including poetry, movement, collage, and storytelling.
First, Breathe creates space to release stress, reclaim personal and collective narratives, and rebuild a sense of wholeness and connection. Each session begins with community yoga, followed by an artist-led activity that transforms what the body holds into story, imagination, and possibility.
Offered over 4 months (February – May), the program is anchored in four phases—RELEASE, RECLAIM, REIMAGINE, REBUILD—a healing arc that moves from letting go of harmful narratives, to recovering suppressed histories and wisdom, to re-imagining possibilities for self and community, to co-creating new visions for the future.
February’s theme is RELEASE – letting go of harmful narratives about self, body and community. Yoga will be followed by a movement session for participants of all backgrounds led by Benji Hart.

Circulate - Call and Response Books
2026-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Call and Response Books, 1390 E. Hyde Park Blvd., Chicago, IL, 60615, United States
Circulate – Call and Response Books
This month, we’re love-bombing Call and Response Books in Hyde Park, and the timing is intentional.
There’s a big box bookstore opening in HP this month, and we’re diverting the attention from them back to the neighborhood bookstores we love.
Join us on February 22nd for CIRCULATE, Chicago’s Small Shop Rent Party, and spread the word to all the book lovers you know!
CIRCULATE
Call and Response Books
1390 E 51st St. (entrance on Dorchester)
Feb. 22 from 2 to 4 pm
