We had some delicious looking submissions to our call for fall recipes. Cie Bond, an artist and volunteer at the Levy Center raised...

In 1990, there were 2,245 murders across the five boroughs of New York City. By 1997, the number had dropped to under 800. How did...

On Sept. 13, Levy Senior Center Foundation board members, Mayor Daniel Biss, City staff, friends and family gathered for a special...

Check out these fabulous photos from our blockbuster event held Sept. 17.

On July 27 the author, professor and distinguished historian, Robert Watson, Ph.D., made a spellbinding presentation about the life and...

During the past 15 months, Ava Thompson Greenwell completed the documentary she produced and directed, “Mandela in Chicago,” saw it...

The Levy Lecture on June 29 featured author Silvia Foti discussing how a deathbed promise to her late mother led to uncovering a...

Music aficionado Gary Wenstrup presented the Levy Lecture on June 22. He is a retired ad sales executive with a passion for music of all...

The esteemed storyteller Donna Washington returned to the Levy Lecture Series on June 8 to explain the history of Juneteenth, a holiday...

Michelle Nichols, Director of Public Observing at The Adler Planetarium, has a special talent as a public speaker. She is an expert in...

The Levy Lecture topic on May 25 centered around Chicago’s block clubs, presented by a former Evanston resident Amanda Seligman, a...

David Chack embraces many roles, but he shines as a teacher, actor, and artistic director. Through the magic technology of Zoom, he...

Local author Patrick T. Reardon is an expert on many aspects of Chicago history. As an investigative reporter, feature writer, columnist,...

On April 27, Deb Wolf, education and public relations director at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, S.D.,...

Jill Wine-Banks, author of The Watergate Girl was featured as a Levy Lecture speaker on April 20 as she spoke via Zoom to a group of...

Rich Lindberg regaled the Levy Lecture crowd with wonderfully detailed stories about obscure happenings in and around Chicago.

In addition to Zoom Bingo, two student volunteers (with parental help, too!) were also able to offer the Levy Senior Center men’s basketball

Mr. Mauney focused on faces and expressions, and he captured a range of emotions with patience, the right lens, and a sixth sense of where t

Florence said in the 1800s nursing was considered a vile occupation and hospitals were where one went to die rather than be healed. Nursing

Mrs. Roosevelt was in good spirits and happy to share her reflections about her life as the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the mother o