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West Side / South Side

West Side / South Side: Bridging the Divide

April 13, 2017
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents Dining Hall
6-8 pm

A lively conversation at Hull-House with journalists, an architectural photographer, cultural critics and community planners and organizers. Panelists address the similarities, differences, historical and contemporary connections between Chicagos’s West Side and South Side neighborhoods. Speakers include: Valerie Leonard, a community development consultant in North Lawndale, Dr. Amara Enyia, public policy consultant and community organizer in Austin; Lee Bey, photographer, writer and South Side native and Natalie Y. Moore, South Side bureau reporter for WBEZ and author of The Southside: A Portrait of Chicago (2016). The discussion will feature Lee Bey’s architectural photographs from the West and South sides and be followed by a reception and book signing of The Southside, with Natalie Moore that comes out in paperback edition at this time.