For over twelve years, the IHC Road Scholars Speakers Bureau has been sending Illinois' finest writers, poets, historians, anthropologists, and living history actors to present to audiences across Illinois. For a small fee, non-profit organizations are able to bring a speaker to their community and share the Road Scholars experience with local audiences, friends and family.

We recently debuted our new roster for the upcoming season, featuring new speakers and all new topics. The speakers, hailing from 16 different towns and cities across Illinois, will be presenting topics in history, culture, literature, music, politics, law, science, and many more.

We are also excited to have partnered with Chicago artist Clare Rosean, who has produced original artwork for each new topic, to be used on promotional posters distributed to Road Scholars hosts. We're hoping the whimsical and humorous artwork will catch the curious eye of new audiences everywhere.

Download the 2012-13 IHC Road Scholars catalog!

For more information, contact Mallory Laurel at the IHC office at mal@prairie.org or call 312.422.5585 (ext. 239).