Paul Durica is a teacher, writer, and public historian. Since 2008, he has produced a series of free and interactive public history programs under the name Pocket Guide to Hell. These talks, walks, and reenactments use costumes, props, music, and audience participation to make the past feel present. Durica’s writing on Chicago history and culture has appeared in Poetry, The Chicagoan, Mash Tun, Lumpen, and elsewhere and, with Bill Savage, he is the editor of Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America (Northwestern UP, 2013). He is currently the director of programs for Illinois Humanities.
Prohibition by the Barrel | Saturday, May 13, 11:00 a.m.
Haymarket Walking Tour | Sunday, May 14, 2:00 p.m.