Walking Chicago's Coast (Watch Party)

• Adults
• Teens

Conference Room

The program features Michael McColly and his recently published book, Walking Chicago’s Coast: A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes. 

McColly will share stories from his walk along the shoreline, from Rogers Park to Indiana Dunes National Park, and the inspiration behind this remarkable journey. Through his stunning photography, he will explore Chicago’s ever-changing landscape, its layered history still present in the waters of the coast, and the challenges of environmental degradation and inequality that shape life in the metropolis.

Along the way, McColly reflects on the awe-inspiring beauty of Lake Michigan, a vast body of water so immense it can be seen from the moon, and the two remarkable parks that bookend the journey: Chicago’s urban lakefront, built on landfill, and Indiana’s Dunes, shaped by thousands of years of natural forces.

 

This program is virtual and in collaboration with Algonquin Public Library District.

To join us for a Watch Party at the library, register for this event.

To watch this event via Zoom, Register Here and select "Roselle Public Library"

 

Michael McColly's essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Boston Review, and The Sun magazine. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning memoir The After-Death Room, chronicling his journey reporting on AIDS activism in Africa, Asia, and the United States.