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Experience a staged reading of The House on Mango Street, based on the novel by celebrated writer Sandra Cisneros and adapted for the stage by Amy Ludwig! This touching and humorous story of a young girl growing up in one of Chicago’s culturally diverse neighborhoods is a classic coming-of-age story about those defining experiences that shape our beliefs and help us discover...

Over the past three decades, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues has established itself as one of the preeminent speakers series in higher education. Past Thompson Forum events have featured, among many others: Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Holocaust survivor and peace activist Elie Wiesel; Camelia Sadat, the daughter of Anwar Sadat and...