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Book cover of “Growing Up Chicago".

October 20, 2022

UIC hosts roundtable of ‘Growing Up Chicago’ writers, editors

Oct. 26 event to be held at Institute for the Humanities

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April 6, 2017

UIC’s Urrea wins American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature

Writer joins previous winners Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lin-Manuel Miranda

Luis Urrea

March 10, 2016

UIC professor, author named finalist for top literary award

Urrea recognized for his short-story collection, “The Water Museum”