Chicago Humanities Festival

Since 1990, world-renowned authors, scholars, poets, policy-makers, artists and performers have gathered each November at Chicago's many cultural institutions to celebrate the power of ideas in human culture. This year, the theme is “ Laughter.” Festival events will invite attendees to consider the many ethnic and cultural shadings of laughter, the battles around humor and political correctness, gallows humor and medical ethics, laughter as imagined by artists including