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    Thomas Dyja

    Author, "The Third Coast"
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    Chicago native Thomas Dyja is the author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, winner of the Chicago Tribune's 2013 Heartland Prize for non-fiction, as well as three novels and a biography of civil rights pioneer Walter White.

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    Past Events

    Wednesday, May 14 2014

    6 PM

    We’re launching the Chicago Ideas Week Book Club with a book that brings out the Chicago enthusiast in all of us. Hosted by author Thomas Dyja,... read more
    2 hours | Lab | Hyatt Corporate Headquarters

    Tuesday, Oct 15 2013

    4 PM

    Chicago is the city of blue collar tradition and Midwestern family values. It also happens to be a budding frontier of some of the world’s greatest... read more
    2 hours | Talk | Edlis Neeson Theater at the Museum of Contemporary Art

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