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‘Journey of empathy”: Author Rebecca Makkai to kick of Creative Living Series Oct. 20

October 11, 2022

As the AIDS epidemic swept through the United States in the 1980s, news coverage tended to focus on New York City and San Francisco. Largely ignored was the Chicago story, including a pioneering AIDS unit at Illinois Masonic Hospital (now Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center) that became a model for the nation. That story gets […]

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