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Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University. Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities. This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Start: 6:00 pm
Barbed wire is particularly relevant to the story of Byron and the surrounding communities, as many were founded as agricultural centers. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University. Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities. This course meets on Mondays and Thursdays. Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
 Parking a car in Chicago is going to get even more expensive with Mayor Daley's plan to privatize the city's 36,000 parking meters. Under the plan, meter rates would increase to $1 an hour. By 2013, drivers will pay $6.50 an hour to park at downtown meters.
When the City Council Finance Committee met last week to debate the plan, aldermen complained about everything from soaring rates to end of parking-meter holidays, "to allowing the private operator to write parking tickets as frequently as every two hours at two-hour meters," the Chicago Tribune reported. Ald. Danny Solis (25th) said: "I could see people having to carry big bags of quarters - big bags of money - to deal with" these rate hikes. Under the plan, Chicago pockets $1.2 billion to allow the partnership of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and LAZ Parking to lease and manage the city's meter operations for 75 years. By leasing the meters, Chicago sought to fill a $150 million budget hole. The city's Chief Financial Officer Paul Volpe, said there were two choices:"cutting $150 million in expenses or raising $150 million worth of taxes." | ||
12 / 12
Start: 4:00 pm
This book provides a gritty, realistic look at these cultural and societal boundaries. The author will read from the book and engage the audience in open-ended conversations about the book's themes. Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Parking a car in Chicago is going to get even more expensive with Mayor Daley's plan to privatize the city's 36,000 parking meters. Under the plan, meter rates would increase to $1 an hour. By 2013, drivers will pay $6.50 an hour to park at downtown meters.
When the City Council Finance Committee met last week to debate the plan, aldermen complained about everything from soaring rates to end of parking-meter holidays, "to allowing the private operator to write parking tickets as frequently as every two hours at two-hour meters," the Chicago Tribune reported. Ald. Danny Solis (25th) said: "I could see people having to carry big bags of quarters - big bags of money - to deal with" these rate hikes. Under the plan, Chicago pockets $1.2 billion to allow the partnership of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners and LAZ Parking to lease and manage the city's meter operations for 75 years. By leasing the meters, Chicago sought to fill a $150 million budget hole. The city's Chief Financial Officer Paul Volpe, said there were two choices:"cutting $150 million in expenses or raising $150 million worth of taxes." | ||
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Start: 9:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
 We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.
But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences. Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:00 pm
Up for viewing and discussion will be "A Thousand Acres." Complete Viewing and Discussion Schedule
Start: 1:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Leslie Goddard
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12 / 15
Start: 1:00 pm
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University. Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities. This course meets on Mondays and Thursdays. | ||
12 / 16
Start: 10:00 am
End: 6:00 pm
We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods. They are decorative structures that are as much part of the landscape as trees and flowers. Industry and agriculture without fences would be difficult to imagine. Private ownership of land would be an abstract concept.
But fences are more than functional objects. They are powerful symbols. The way we define ourselves as individuals and as a nation becomes concrete in how we build fences. Through an examination of boundaries, place, and space, Between Fences will explore how neighbors and nations divide, protect, offend, and defend through the boundaries they build.
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University. Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities. This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. | ||
12 / 17
Start: 6:00 pm
Discussion of "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature. | ||
12 / 18
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature.
Discussion of 'Regeneration,' by Pat Barker, and 'Dulce et Decorum Est,' by Wilfred Owen. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University. Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities. This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
The Odyssey Project is a college-level course in philosophy, literature, art history, and history for men and women living below 150% of the poverty level. Its anchor program is the first-year course, which is offered in partnership with Bard College and for which students may receive six units of college credit. Faculty members are largely from first-rate universities such as University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and DePaul University. Tuition is free, and the Illinois Humanities Council provides free childcare, free books, and transportation. The six units of credit are fully transferable to other colleges and universities. This course meets on Mondays and Thursdays. Start: 6:00 pm
 photo from Illinois Agri-Women WebsiteWitness this roundtable discussion with women - young and old - with farming backgrounds. These women will discuss their lives in farming through the years, comparing their stories, and perhaps complimenting the stories from the male farmers earlier in the series.
In small communities like Byron, few opportunities exist to engage in dialogue quite like this. | ||
