• Books & Brews: Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss Trace by Lauret Savoy, a provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, exploring how the country’s still unfolding history, and ideas of “race,” have marked […]

  • Books & Brews: Before We Were Yours

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, a story about two families, two generations apart, linked by a notorious real life scandal. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the West […]

  • American Experience Book Club: Pale Rider

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    From 1918 - 1920, one of the most horrific worldwide epidemics left over 50 million dead and was one of the greatest disasters of all time. In Pale Rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, author Laura Spivey delves into how the virus travelled globally, not only affecting areas of treatment […]

  • Books & Brews: Radium Girls

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, the […]

  • Books & Brews: Red Clocks

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss Red Clocks by Leni Zumas, a fictional novel in the vein of Margaret Atwood about five women in a post-reproductive rights America. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the West […]

  • Candidates Forum

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Chicago's election for mayor, alderman and other city offices is Feb. 26. The first Monday in February will be a Candidates Forum upstairs at Roots Pizza, 1924 W. Chicago Ave. Candidates in ward and citywide races will give short statements, mingle and answer voter questions. The Feb. 4 event starts at 6:30pm. Sponsors are Chicago […]

  • Books & Brews: The Hike

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss The Hike by Drew Magary, a fantastical novel about a guy who takes a routine walk and finds himself on a trail that is totally surreal, scary and wholly original. Copies of […]

  • Books and Brews: Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books and Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss Dreamland by Sam Quinones. Copies of the […]

  • Books & Brews: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books & Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss the One Book, One Chicago selection: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick. Copies of the book are available for checkout at the West Town Branch Library. This event is for […]

  • Books and Brews: The Coyote’s Bicycle

    Roots Handmade Pizza 1924 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, United States

    Join us at Roots Pizza for our monthly Books and Brews book discussion, a book club that meets at a bar/restaurant. This month we'll discuss The Coyote's Bicycle. Copies of the book are available for check out at the West Town Branch Library. This event is for ages 21 and up.