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What Was Queer Lakeview Like In The 1980s?
To understand more the real-life parallels between Makkai’s novel and 1980s Lakeview, Read & Run Chicago hosted three LGBTQ elders after our Book Club Run of The Great Believers in January 2025 in partnership with Gerber/Hart Library & Archives, the largest LGBTQ archives in the Midwest and a resource for Rebecca Makkai.
What It Was Like to Work at Jane, Chicago’s 1970s-era Underground Abortion Network
Watch this video to hear from two former members of Jane, the revolutionary underground abortion network in Chicago.
