Events at Chicago Public Library

The Pulitzer on the Road Traveling Exhibition: Prize-Winning Works That Inform, Empower & Inspire is off on a nationwide tour this month. Its first stops are the public libraries in Chicago, Ill. and Dallas, Texas. 

The Harold Washington Center of the Chicago Public Library will be hosting a series of free events in conjunction with the Pulitzer exhibition, including:

• Wednesday October 14: Exhibition launch event on Storytelling and America, featuring prize winners in conversation: 2026 Fiction winner Daniel Kraus; 2025 Fiction winner Percival Everett; 2026 Biography winner Amanda Vaill; and 2022 Breaking News Photography winner Jon Cherry of Getty Images. They'll be speaking with Pulitzer Board member Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School and a 2018 Commentary finalist.
• Saturday November 7: "Can You Imagine?" with 2021 Music winner Tania León, composer of "Stride."
• Saturday November 14: A conversation event with historian Mark Larson on the eminent Chicagoan Studs Terkel, a lodestar of 20th century American culture who received the 1985 General Nonfiction Prize for "The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two."
• Tuesday December 1: The Stories Behind Our Stories. A live storytelling event with prize-winning journalists on local stories they've covered and the impact these have had on their lives and communities, featuring 2024 Audio Reporting staff contributor Yohance Lacour of The Invisible Institute; 2012 Commentary winner Mary Schmich, formerly of the Chicago Tribune; 2026 Local Reporting staff contributor Laura Rodruigez Presa from the Chicago Tribune; 2021 Breaking News Reporting contributor Liz Sawyer of The Minnesota Star Tribune; and 2018 Commentary & 2023 Local Reporting winner John Archibald, a Pulitzer Board member.

And many more events and exhibition tours, all free and open to the public. Visit the Chicago Public Library's website for details.