Harold Washington Library

And she showed up every single day and helped me and then realized that she loved the new business.

and then we had a conversation about that about how you know business is an expression of a person and how my new business is still i didn't use those words with her my new business is still an expression of who i am and we'll still be doing a lot of great work for the city and for ourselves and other folks i am also working on an exhibition that will debut at the harold washington library january 10th it's like a three or four month show i forget the details but i'll post about it soon And that has been just wildly fulfilling.

It's called The City Remembers.

And through the process of this exhibition, I'm going through their special collections and pulling things out and then making paintings about them.

And of course, there was this problem in the way that he was representing culture to people.

So after this reckoning, which I don't know enough about, he hired Charles Dawson, I believe, who's like a really amazing sign painter, who's a black man who ended up making the labels.

And Tim Samuelson and Danny Shulman and a bunch of people collected these labels, they were donated to the Harold Washington Library.

And I pulled them to make paintings about and they have these amazing words on them like happy go lucky, true love, hug your man, brown skin beauty.

And now five years later, the capsule has been opened.

In this episode of The Pod, we'll hear some of their pandemic stories being highlighted in a new exhibit at the Harold Washington Library, inviting you to reflect on that moment in recent history too.

At the table with me was Stacey Gillette, who's co-founder and executive director of Living Record, which creates time capsules with young people in Chicago.

and Chris Brown, Chicago Public Library Commissioner.

What should we know about this Thursday's event? How can people get involved?

Absolutely.

So they should come to Harold Washington Library this Thursday, October 1st, from 5 to 7.

We have a public and free event.

But they end up allowing planes to fly over, and the whole point of the episode is at some point you don't even notice the planes are there.

I used to live next to the Harold Washington Library, i.e. the Harold Washington Brown Line stop.

Yeah.

After the second day you're there, we're so consumed with all these screens, we don't even notice the train going by anymore.