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What to do in Hyde Park this week

Low-cost events near Hyde Park, pulled from public calendars and updated as sources sync.

Updated Nov 4, 2026 · 2:25 AM CST

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Wednesday, November 4

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  3. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Open Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  4. 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump: Legal Scholars and University Leaders on Free Inquiry and Higher Education
    David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago · Free
  5. 4:00 PM Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
    Haskell Hall, Room 315 · Free
  6. 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM 🌈☕️ El Cafecito: Corridos of the Semiquincentennial
    Classics Building, Room 110 · see listing for cost
  7. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM The Artist’s Studio at the Library
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  8. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  9. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Amy Skjerseth - "Preprogrammed: How Electronic Presets Changed Music and Media" - Jennifer Iverson
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  10. 4:30 PM Global Christianity Lecture: “History Belongs to the Intercessors: Delivering Haiti from Jezebel in the Transnational Evangelical Worldview”
    Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room · Free
  11. 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM The Absence and Presence of the Berlin Wall
    Stuart Hall, Room 104 · see listing for cost
  12. 4:30 PM The Great Offshore: Launching Limn 15
    Social Science Research, Tea Room · see listing for cost
  13. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Adult Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  14. 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM Chan (Zen) Meditation
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  15. 5:30 PM – 7:45 PM Film Screening: Masters of the Universe (2026)
    731 E. 63rd Street, Chicago, IL · Free
  16. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Threshold: Conversations on the Stoop: Featuring Candace Hunter and Cathy Cohen
    301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  17. 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Spanish Conversation Group
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  18. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ISAC Lecture with Dr. James Burgin
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), Breasted Hall · see listing for cost
  19. 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Pen Flow Writing Sessions
    4500 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60653, USA · Free
  20. 7:00 PM A Musical Memorial Celebration Honoring the Life and Legacy of Geraldine de Haas
    Logan Center, Performance Hall · Free
  21. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Visible Hand jam
    Connect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL · $15 suggested
  22. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM First Wednesday Blues & Beyond Jam with Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith
    Logan Center, Café Logan · see listing for cost

Thursday, November 5

  1. All day ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · see listing for cost
  2. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  3. 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Walking Club at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  4. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  5. 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Pickleball - Open at Washington
    Washington (George) Park, 5531 S. King Dr. · Free
  6. 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Jordan Todes Dissertation Defense: Deciphering local, global, and diagenetic controls on unusual Early Triassic geochemical dynamics: implications for biotic and climatic recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction
    Henry Hinds Laboratory, Room 176 · see listing for cost
  7. 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Free Food Market
    First Presbyterian Church 6400 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States · Free
  8. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  9. 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Adult Swim at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  10. 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM From the Entropic Landscape to the Regeneration of the Earth: Art and Extractivism in Times of Climate Urgency
    Social Science Research, Tea Room · see listing for cost
  11. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  12. 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ambient by Redemptive Plastics: Make 3D Forms
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  13. 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM Our National Experiment: Reflecting on the Declaration of Independence at 250
    David Rubenstein Forum, 1201 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA · see listing for cost
  14. 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Chess Club
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  15. 4:00 PM RDI Workshop Series - Adrian De Leon
    Kelly Hall, Room 108 · Free
  16. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Steven B. Dolins & Gregory Donald Gay - "Can I Get a Witness?: Faith, Family, and Chicago Gospel Music"
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  17. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  18. 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Political Theatre from Obama to Trump: Vinson Cunningham on the Drama of the American Presidency
    Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room · see listing for cost
  19. 4:30 PM Tea Time Concert: Afro-Cuban Folkloric Ensemble
    Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall · Free
  20. 6:00 PM Court Convening 1: America@250
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), Breasted Hall · see listing for cost
  21. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM 'Seeing Sounds' Book Launch
    Book Joint, 6900 S. Stony Island Ave, Chicago · Free
  22. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Basketball - Open at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · $5
  23. 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Jason W. Moore: “The Climate-Class Conjuncture, or, the Worldwide Class Struggle in the Web of Life”
    Social Science Research, Room 122 · Free
  24. 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Womens Basketball - Open at Kennicott
    Kennicott (Jonathan) Park, 4434 S. Lake Park Ave. · Free
  25. 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Insight Meditation Sangha
    Bond Chapel · see listing for cost
  26. 7:30 PM Sanctuary City
    Logan Center, Theater West · see listing for cost
  27. 9:30 PM Mahler (1974)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7

Friday, November 6

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Walking Club at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  3. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  4. 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Walking Club at Washington
    Washington (George) Park, 5531 S. King Dr. · Free
  5. 10:30 AM History of Hyde Park: A Walking Tour with Prof. Raymond Lodato
    E. 53rd St. & S. Harper Ave. · Free
  6. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  7. 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM France/Francophone Workshop, with Emily Cox
    Wieboldt Hall, Room 206 · see listing for cost
  8. 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM Arts and America at 250: We stand at the intersection of creativity and politics
    5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  9. 12:30 PM Arts and America at 250: We Stand at the Intersection of Creativity and Politics
    Logan Center · see listing for cost
  10. 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM Matt Beard (National Laboratory of the Rockies/NLR)
    Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 · Free
  11. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Cultural Stewardship Reading Room Open Hours
    301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  12. 1:00 PM American Lectures in the History of Religion | Annette Yoshiko Reed: “Erasures of Religion and History: Amnesia of Origins: Temporal Regimes of Comparison in Late Antiquity and Modernity”
    Swift Hall · Free
  13. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  14. 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Open Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  15. 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Geo. Sci. Seminar: Kalina Grabb, Dalhousie University
    Henry Hinds Laboratory, Room 101 · see listing for cost
  16. 2:30 PM Artists Go to Work (Keynote Conversation)
    Logan Center · see listing for cost
  17. 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM Rehumanizing Education in an Age of AI
    International House, Assembly Hall · Free
  18. 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  19. 3:00 PM Dictaminal Attitudes: Transcribing and Compiling Peter of Blois
    Regenstein Library, Room 122A-B · see listing for cost
  20. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM R.P. Singletary - "Speak Softly Among Icebergs" - Elizabeth, or Ez, Pence
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  21. 4:30 PM Artists Go to Work (Breakout Sessions)
    Logan Center · see listing for cost
  22. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  23. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM Crisis Cinema
    Cobb Lecture Hall, Room 307 · Free
  24. 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM CMES Friday Lecture with Omer Cheta: “How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt”
    Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 146 · see listing for cost
  25. 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Listening Hours with Ayana Contreras
    The Land School, Chicago · see listing for cost
  26. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM "Charles White Across Media: A Visual Archive" Opening Reception
    Logan Center Exhibitions, 915 E 60th St, Chicago · Free
  27. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Opening Reception for “Charles White Across Media: A Visual Archive”
    Logan Center, Gallery · Free
  28. 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Amateur, Avant-Garde, or Underground? Gay Filmmaking at Mid-Century
    Logan Center, Screening Room · Free
  29. 7:30 PM Craig Taborn Trio
    Logan Center, Performance Hall · $14-$39, $25
  30. 7:30 PM Sanctuary City
    Logan Center, Theater West · 6 advance | $8 at the door
  31. 8:00 PM Vocal Studies Showcase: “In the Spotlight!”
    Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall · Free

Saturday, November 7

  1. All day Christmas Around the World and Holidays of Light
    Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago · see listing for cost
  2. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  3. 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM Charles White Across Media: A Visual Archive
    Logan Center, Gallery · Free
  4. 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Five Bands Brotherhood Forum Series: The Inner Life of a Man
    DuSable Black History Museum, 740 E 56th Place, Chicago, IL · see listing for cost
  5. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM South Side Fireflies
    301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  6. 11:00 AM Compton Lectures: Luca Grandi “The 85% We Cannot See: The Long, Tireless Quest for Dark Matter”
    Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106 · Free
  7. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM South Side Fireflies
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  8. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  9. 1:00 PM Drawing Sound: Charles White, Craig Taborn, and the Black Arts Tradition
    Logan Center, Screening Room · Free
  10. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Drop-in Mindful Art
    Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · see listing for cost
  11. 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ISAC Discovery Tours
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · see listing for cost
  12. 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Crisis Poetics
    Social Science Research, Room 122 · Free
  13. 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Chicago: The Birthplace of Black History Tour with Dilla the Urban Historian
    4801 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  14. 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Elisa Tamarkin - "Done in A Day" - Deborah L. Nelson
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  15. 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM November Logan Center Family Saturday: Paint and Power!
    Logan Center for the Arts · Free
  16. 2:00 PM Sanctuary City
    Logan Center, Theater West · see listing for cost
  17. 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White Learned to Paint
    Logan Center, Gallery · Free
  18. 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Basketball - Open at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  19. 3:00 PM Monkey Business (1952)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7
  20. 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Gökçe Günel: “Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations”
    Social Science Research, Room 122 · Free
  21. 4:00 PM UChicago MFA Open Studios
    Logan Center for the Arts · see listing for cost
  22. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM ARCE-ISAC Joint Lecture: Treasure Fit for a Queen: Royal Burials from el-Kurru, Sudan
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) · Free
  23. 6:00 PM Swamp / Partially Buried / Vidéoème / Partially Buried Continued (1971 / 1996 / 1976 / 1997)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7
  24. 7:30 PM Sanctuary City
    Logan Center, Theater West · 6 | $8 at the door
  25. 9:30 PM Niagara (1953)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7

Sunday, November 8

  1. All day New Directions in Jewish Intellectual History: Knowledge Production and Modernity - a conference in memory of Paul Mendes-Flohr
    Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room · Free
  2. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  3. 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Sundays at Rockefeller
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  4. 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Somatics – Healing with Yoga: Session 4
    Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  5. 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Somatics – Healing with Yoga
    Smart Museum of Art · Free
  6. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Sunday Somatics: Healing with Yoga
    5550 S. Greenwood Ave. · Free
  7. 12:00 PM Gourd Ornament Decorating with Abeni Pierson
    DuSable Black History Museum, 740 E 56th Place, Chicago, IL · see listing for cost
  8. 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Yoga with April Falcon at The Land School
    The Land School, 7200 South Dorchester Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619 · see listing for cost
  9. 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Art/Access Lab: Open Lab
    6100 South Blackstone Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States · Free
  10. 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM C2ST Presents Silver Screen Science
    DuSable Black History Museum, 740 E 56th Place, Chicago, IL · see listing for cost
  11. 3:00 PM CelloGayageum
    Logan Center, Performance Hall · $14-$44, $25, $39
  12. 4:00 PM HotHouse Presents Reading the World Screening & Conversation
    Logan Center, Screening Room · Free
  13. 4:00 PM Reading the World: Paulo Freire in Angicos
    915 E. 60th Street, Chicago · Free
  14. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Diwali Celebrations
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  15. 7:00 PM Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7

Monday, November 9

  1. All day New Directions in Jewish Intellectual History: Knowledge Production and Modernity - a conference in memory of Paul Mendes-Flohr
    Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room · Free
  2. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  3. 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM Walking Club at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  4. 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Youth Martial Arts Training
    John Knox Hall · Free
  5. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  6. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM 2026 Simon M. Shubitz Cancer Prize & Lectureship
    Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103 · Free
  7. 12:00 PM Inside Illinois Jails: Reporting from Illinois Answers Project and the Mansueto Institute’s Local Data Journalism Initiative
    1155 E. 60th Street, Room 101, Chicago IL · see listing for cost
  8. 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Open Writing Workshop
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  9. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pickleball - Open at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · $10
  10. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Views from UChicago: Book Talk - Angela S. Garcia
    CSRPC, 5733 S University Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  11. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pickleball - Open at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · $10
  12. 3:00 PM Bárbara Arroyo
    Haskell Hall, Room 315 · see listing for cost
  13. 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Calderon-Zygmund Seminar: Juhi Jang
    Eckhart Hall, Room 202 · see listing for cost
  14. 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Andres Montaya Castillo (Colorado University)
    Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 · Free
  15. 4:00 PM Ask Me Anything: What’s Next for U.S. Politics?
    Classics Building, Room 110 · see listing for cost
  16. 4:30 PM Agata Zborowska: The Visual History of Polish Chicago
    Social Science Research, Tea Room (SSRB 201) · Free
  17. 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM Samatha Meditation
    Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · see listing for cost
  18. 6:00 PM Building Fictions: Art, Cinema, Archives, and Other Ways of Surviving Reality with Rubén Gutiérrez
    Logan Center, Performance Penthouse · see listing for cost
  19. 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM Welcome to the Show by Derek Bish
    6400 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA · Free

Tuesday, November 10

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM Walking Club at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  3. 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Walking Club at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  4. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  5. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  6. 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM Adult Swim at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  7. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
    Billings Hospital, Room P-117 · see listing for cost
  8. 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Religions in America Workshop: Bex Heimbrock
    Swift Hall · see listing for cost
  9. 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM Adult Swim at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  10. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Open Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  11. 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM Transitioning Beyond Service
    International House, Assembly Hall · Free
  12. 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Meet the Maker: Redemptive Plastics
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  13. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Leonard M. Lopoo - "Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America's Population" -Ariel Kalil
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  14. 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Tea & Pipes
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  15. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Lectio: Bible Study
    First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 6400 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  16. 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Dominic A. Pacyga - "Clout City " - at Robie House
    Robie House, Chicago, IL, 60637 · see listing for cost
  17. 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Film Screening: Smoke Signals (1998)
    731 E. 63rd Street, Chicago, IL · Free
  18. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  19. 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters screening and discussion with filmmakers Leslie Askew and Turlough White
    Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105) · Free
  20. 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CRWR All-Program Reading
    Classics Building, Room 110 · Free
  21. 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Gentle Yoga
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  22. 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM New York Times Chairman A.G. Sulzberger in Conversation
    1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637 · Free
  23. 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Rear View Mirror Sessions: Marvin Gaye
    Logan Center, Performance Hall · Free
  24. 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Star Trek: Deviations: Threads of Destiny Comic Book Event
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  25. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Basketball - Open at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · $5
  26. 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Rear View Mirror Sessions: Marvin Gaye
    915 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  27. 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Mindful Breath
    Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · see listing for cost
  28. 7:00 PM Blond Tango (1986)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7

Wednesday, November 11

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM Walking Club at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  3. 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Walking Club at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  4. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  5. 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM Committed Knitters
    301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  6. 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM Annual Veterans Day Recognition 2026
    International House, Assembly Hall · Free
  7. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  8. 12:00 PM Matt Schultz - Language Learning, International Opportunities, and Career Development: What the Peace Corps Can Do for You
    1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Chicago, IL 60637 · Free
  9. 12:10 PM Committee on Microbiology seminar
    Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 115 · Free
  10. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Open Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  11. 4:00 PM Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
    Haskell Hall, Room 315 · Free
  12. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Jane Hamilton - "The Phoebe Variations" - Rowan Beaird
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  13. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM The Artist’s Studio at the Library
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  14. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  15. 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM MOSTRA XVII - Brazilian Film Festival 🎥,
    Rosenwald Hall, Room 011 · Free
  16. 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM Chan (Zen) Meditation
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  17. 5:30 PM Good Enough to Help, Powerful Enough to Hurt: The West, Africa, and the Paradox of Human Rights Advocacy
    Center for Identity and Inclusion, University of Chicago · Free
  18. 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Spanish Conversation Group
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  19. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Black Wall Open Mic (Second Wednesdays)
    Little Black Pearl Workshop, 1060 E 47th St, Chicago, IL 60653, USA · see listing for cost
  20. 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Pen Flow Writing Sessions
    4500 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60653, USA · Free
  21. 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Visible Hand jam
    Connect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL · $15 suggested

Thursday, November 12

  1. All day ISAC Exhibit: Hartapu: The Forgotten King of Anatolia
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · see listing for cost
  2. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  3. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  4. 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Free Food Market
    First Presbyterian Church 6400 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States · Free
  5. 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM Native American Heritage Month Celebration
    Baker Dining Commons · see listing for cost
  6. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  7. 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Bridge Club at Nichols
    Nichols (John Fountain) Park, 1355 E. 53rd St. · Free
  8. 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM “I Don’t Care If They Call Me a Dictator”: Atrocities in the Bukele Model
    Social Science Research, Tea Room · see listing for cost
  9. 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Bridge Club at Nichols
    Nichols (John Fountain) Park, 1355 E. 53rd St. · Free
  10. 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Setting Fire to Reason: A Framework for Free Speech and Its Limits
    5737 S. University · Free
  11. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  12. 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Ambient by Redemptive Plastics: Make 3D Forms
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  13. 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Chess Club
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  14. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Timothy B. Tyson & Mary D. Williams - "Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher"
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  15. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  16. 4:30 PM Tea Time Concert: UChicago Pianists
    Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall · Free
  17. 4:30 PM LECTURE “The King Can Do No Wrong”: Daniel Lee, Berkeley
    Social Sciences Research Building, Tea Room (201) · see listing for cost
  18. 5:00 PM Perrin Roosevelt Ireland on “Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex”
    Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room (105) · Free
  19. 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Listening Hours with Duane Powell
    The Land School, Chicago · Free
  20. 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM A Homecoming in Poetry: An Evening with Dylan Lloyd Author of Coffee Walk Poetry
    Regenstein Library, Room 122A · Free
  21. 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Insight Meditation Sangha
    Bond Chapel · see listing for cost
  22. 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Womens Basketball - Open at Kennicott
    Kennicott (Jonathan) Park, 4434 S. Lake Park Ave. · Free
  23. 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM An Evening with Andrew Norman Wilson
    Logan Center, Screening Room · Free
  24. 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Guided Meditation with Camille
    Call & Response Books, 1390 East Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60615 · see listing for cost
  25. 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM UChicago Jazz Collective November Jazz Jam
    The Hunt at Logan · Free
  26. 7:30 PM Hamlet
    Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Third Floor Theater · see listing for cost
  27. 7:30 PM All Eight
    Logan Center, Theater East · Free
  28. 9:30 PM Salome’s Last Dance (1988)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7

Friday, November 13

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. All day Scholars at Risk (SAR) US General Assembly — Truth Matters: Defending Scholars & Academic Freedom in Challenging Times
    Ida Noyes Hall · see listing for cost
  3. 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM Walking Club at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  4. 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Walking Club at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  5. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  6. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  7. 12:00 PM East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Leland Lazarus (Lazarus Consulting LLC)
    1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 (Franke Institute for the Humanities) · Free
  8. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM UCCCC Seminar Series: John Prensner, MD, PhD
    Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery, Room 1103 · Free
  9. 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Workshop - Shared Pasts: Collaborative Archaeology in Mesoamerica and the Andes
    Social Science Research, Tea Room · Free
  10. 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM Osvaldo Gutierrez (UCLA)
    Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 · Free
  11. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  12. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Cultural Stewardship Reading Room Open Hours
    301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  13. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pickleball - Open at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · $10
  14. 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Open Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  15. 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Geo. Sci. Seminar: Patrick Rafter, University of South Florida
    Henry Hinds Laboratory, Room 101 · see listing for cost
  16. 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ESL Practice: English Conversation Group
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  17. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Deirdre Loughridge - "The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments" - Jennifer Iverson
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  18. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  19. 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM Listening Hours with Caitlin Edwards
    The Land School, Chicago · see listing for cost
  20. 7:30 PM Hamlet
    Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Third Floor Theater · see listing for cost
  21. 7:30 PM All Eight
    Logan Center, Theater East · $6
  22. 7:30 PM Choral Union
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · Free

Saturday, November 14

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Mrs. Dipsworth’s Storytime
    DuSable Black History Museum, 740 E 56th Place, Chicago, IL · see listing for cost
  3. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM South Side Fireflies
    301 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States · Free
  4. 11:00 AM Compton Lectures: Daniel Holz “A decade of gravitational-wave science”
    Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 106 · Free
  5. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM South Side Fireflies
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  6. 11:30 AM Open Classroom: Titanic
    Logan Center, Screening Room · Free
  7. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Story Time with A.D. Ghani
    Call & Response Books, 1390 East Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60615 · see listing for cost
  8. 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Create Your Path: Turning Talent into Opportunity with Joy Joshua
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  9. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Intentionality, 1960: Whose Dreams? Gallery Hours
    Arts Incubator, Washington Park · Free
  10. 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ISAC Discovery Tours
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · see listing for cost
  11. 2:00 PM Hamlet
    Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Third Floor Theater · see listing for cost
  12. 2:00 PM All Eight
    Logan Center, Theater East · see listing for cost
  13. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Clara Han - "Echoes of a Death: Police Violence and the Singularity of a Life" - Andrew Brandel
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  14. 4:00 PM Some Chance Operations / ’A santanotte (1999 / 1922)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7
  15. 7:00 PM Intermissions: François Chaignaud & Aymeric Hainaux
    Renaissance Society, Cobb Hall, 5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  16. 7:30 PM Hamlet
    Reynolds Club, Francis X. Kinahan Third Floor Theater · see listing for cost
  17. 7:30 PM All Eight
    Logan Center, Theater East · $6
  18. 8:00 PM University Chamber Orchestra
    Logan Center, Performance Hall · Free

Sunday, November 15

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. All day Chicago Art Book Fair
    Renaissance Society, Cobb Hall, 5811 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  3. 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Sunday Somatics: Healing with Yoga
    5550 S. Greenwood Ave. · Free
  4. 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Somatics – Healing with Yoga: Session 5
    Smart Museum of Art, 5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  5. 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Sundays at Rockefeller
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  6. 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Sunday Somatics – Healing with Yoga
    Smart Museum of Art · Free
  7. 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Yoga with April Falcon at The Land School
    The Land School, 7200 South Dorchester Avenue, Chicago, IL 60619 · see listing for cost
  8. 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Koinonia Day! Board Games + More
    The Porter Room · Free
  9. 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Archaeology and the Bible Tour
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum · $5–$25
  10. 2:00 PM All Eight
    Logan Center, Theater East · 6 or $8 at the door
  11. 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM Meditation Retreat
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  12. 3:00 PM University Wind Ensemble
    Logan Center, Performance Hall · Free
  13. 5:00 PM Legacy by Lilly Camp (Staged Reading)
    Logan Center for the Arts · Free
  14. 7:00 PM Come Closer / Endless Dreams and Water Between (2008 / 2009)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7
  15. 7:00 PM The Bridge #2.12
    Logan Center, Performance Penthouse · $10

Monday, November 16

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Youth Martial Arts Training
    John Knox Hall · Free
  3. 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Walking Club at Washington
    Washington (George) Park, 5531 S. King Dr. · Free
  4. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  5. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Views from UChicago: Book Talk Series, Angela S. Garcia
    Regenstein Library, Room 122A-B · see listing for cost
  6. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Views from UChicago: Book Talk - Angela S. Garcia
    Regenstein Library, Room 122 · see listing for cost
  7. 12:00 PM Lunchtime Colloquium: Brian Fabes
    1155 E. 60th Street, Room 101, Chicago IL · Free
  8. 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Open Writing Workshop
    4904 S. Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  9. 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Bridge Club at Nichols
    Nichols (John Fountain) Park, 1355 E. 53rd St. · Free
  10. 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM Pickleball - Open at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · $10
  11. 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM D. Gale Johnson Lecture with Ariel Pakes
    Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 146 · Free
  12. 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Calderon-Zygmund Seminar: Shuchen Guo
    Eckhart Hall, Room 202 · see listing for cost
  13. 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM Itay Budin (University of California, San Diego)
    Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 120 · Free
  14. 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM CEST Workshop: Xenia Cherkaev
    Haskell Hall, Room 315 · see listing for cost
  15. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Adult Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  16. 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM Samatha Meditation
    Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · see listing for cost
  17. 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Language Tables
    International House, Assembly Hall · Free

Tuesday, November 17

  1. All day Created Equal: The Premises and Promises of the Declaration of Independence
    Regenstein Library, The Special Collections Research Center · Free
  2. 7:00 AM – 10:30 AM Walking Club at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  3. 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Walking Club at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  4. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pierre Bismuth: Love Bless America
    Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society · Free
  5. 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Pickleball - Open at Washington
    Washington (George) Park, 5531 S. King Dr. · Free
  6. 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  7. 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Travel Signature Pop-up
    5710 South Woodlawn Avenue · see listing for cost
  8. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Brown Bag Lecture with Dr. Aurore Motte, Université de Liège
    The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC), La Salle Banks Room · Free
  9. 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
    Billings Hospital, Room P-117 · see listing for cost
  10. 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis: Crimes Against Humanity and the Politics of Denial
    Social Science Research, Tea Room · see listing for cost
  11. 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Religions in America Workshop: Meghan Doyle
    Swift Hall · see listing for cost
  12. 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM Adult Swim at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · Free
  13. 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Open Swim at Don Nash
    Nash (Don) Community Center Park, 7125 South Bennett Avenue · Free
  14. 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Meet the Maker: Redemptive Plastics
    6021 S. Stony Island Avenue, Chicago, IL · Free
  15. 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Tea & Pipes
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  16. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM DOP Leadership Council for Trainee Education & Research
    Comer Children’s Hospital, Room K160G · see listing for cost
  17. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Lectio: Bible Study
    First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 6400 S Kimbark Ave, Chicago, IL · Free
  18. 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Will Quam - "Fire and Clay" - Laurie Petersen, In Partnership with Robie House
    The Seminary Co-op, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637 · Free
  19. 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Autumn Carillon Tower Tours
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  20. 5:00 PM The Algorithmic Past: AI and the New Conditions of Historicity
    Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157 · see listing for cost
  21. 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Leading Across Worlds Panel Conversation and Networking
    International House, Assembly Hall · Free
  22. 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Gentle Yoga
    Rockefeller Memorial Chapel · see listing for cost
  23. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Basketball - Open at Harris
    Harris (Harriet) Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave. · $5
  24. 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM The Odyssey across the Centuries
    Swift Hall Third Floor Lecture Room · see listing for cost
  25. 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Mindful Breath
    Ida Noyes Hall, Spiritual Life, 034 · see listing for cost
  26. 7:00 PM Homage to La Sarraz / First Leipzig Autumn Salon / Dürer’s Heritage (1981 / 2008 / 1996)
    Max Palevsky Cinema, 1212 E 59th St, Chicago, IL · $7
  27. 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Book Talk: Soft Spots with Leila Renee
    Call & Response Books, 1390 East Hyde Park Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60615 · see listing for cost
  28. 7:30 PM – 9:15 PM Third Tuesday Jazz: Thaddeus Tukes
    Logan Center, Café Logan · Free