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SUMMARY:Fourth of July Celebration BBQ
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be celebrating Independence Day early! Come enjoy a fantastic BBQ buffet\, and stay to watch fireworks from the terrace. \nBar Opens: 5:30 p.m.\nBBQ Buffet: 7:00 p.m.\nFireworks when Bar Closes: 9:00 p.m. \nMembers: $54\nInvited Guests: $60 \nEnjoy celebratory craft cocktails and Chef Erick’s delicious barbeque!\nMake your reservation NO LATER THAN June 24th\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org     312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/fourth-of-july-celebration-bbq/
CATEGORIES:Party,Past Event
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SUMMARY:Chicago's Forgotten Impressionist - James Bolivar Needham
DESCRIPTION:A visionary\, self-taught artist who was among the first in the city to see beauty in Chicago’s industrial waterways\, James Bolivar Needham (1830-1931) never achieved widespread fame in his lifetime. The Cliff Dwellers’ founders and members\, however\, appreciated Needham’s perspective and saw him as an example of the artistic innovation unique to Chicago. \nCliff Dwellers AIR and Chicago Maritime Museum curator Madeline Crispwell will walk us through Needham’s life\,  from his parents’ escape on the Underground Railroad to his connections with artists like Hamlin Garland and Lorado Taft\, and will explore questions still to be answered. \nDoors open: 5:00 p.m.\nDinner: 6:00 p.m.\nProgram: 7:00 p.m. \nMembers: $54\nInvited Guests: $60\nProgram only: $20 \nPlease make your reservation for this event NO LATER THAN June 30th.\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org    312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/chicagos-forgotten-impressionist-james-bolivar-needham/
CATEGORIES:Art,Artists In Residence,Dinner,Lecture,Past Event
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SUMMARY:The Architectural Table - The New Game Plan for Urban Stadia
DESCRIPTION:This lively group meets monthly to broach an array of exhilarating architectural topics\, highlighting both the good and the bad! \nToday’s topic: Urban Sports Stadiums; Looking at them in a new way! \nSo that we have enough seats at the table\, please make a reservation by Friday\, April 10 via\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org OR call 312-922-8080 \nLet the office know if you’ll be also be enjoying the buffet. \n 
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/the-architectural-table-14/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Brunch,Past Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260718T110000
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CREATED:20260617T162813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T192334Z
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SUMMARY:The Cliff Dwellers Book Club discusses Fire and Clay
DESCRIPTION:A literary journey experiencing the beauty and mystery of Chicago’s buildings.\nThe Cliff Dwellers Book Club will gather in the Sullivan Room on Saturday\, July 18\, at 11:00 a.m. to discuss Fire and Clay\, by Will Quam. \nBy the late 1920’s\, at the peak of brick making and consumption\, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year for its buildings and importing almost another billion nicer face bricks for their front facades. \nIn Fire and Clay\, Quam explores how developers\, architects\, and masons followed changing fashions as they designed and built the city\, creating connections across disparate neighborhoods. \nPlease make a reservation with the club by Friday\, July 10 \nPlanning to stay for the special Saturday Jazz Brunch ($38) as well? Let the staff know when you contact us!\n \nreservations@cliff-chicago.org\, or 312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/the-cliff-dwellers-book-club-discusses-fire-and-clay/
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Past Event
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SUMMARY:Saturday Jazz Brunch!
DESCRIPTION:Cliff Dweller member Dr. Roosevelt Griffin III and the Windy City Ramblers will make brunch at the club unforgettable as they provide their blend of rich New Orleans second line rhythms with Chicago’s own musical jazz\, soul\, and blues legacy. Join your Club friends for a fun Saturday afternoon of great food and great music.\nThis Jazz Brunch is being sponsored by Joan Pantsios\, in honor of her birthday! Thank you Joan!Bar opens: 11:30 a.m.\nBrunch: Noon -2 p.m.Members: $38\nNon-members: $46 \n\nReserve your spot by Friday\, July 10\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or 312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/saturday-brunch-6/
CATEGORIES:Brunch,Jazz,Past Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260721T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260721T203000
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SUMMARY:Theatre Club: Broadway Sings America at Grant Park Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:It’s summer in the city\, and what more Chicago-way to spend a warm summer evening than under the grand arches of the Great Lawn at the Pritzker Pavilion\, listening to the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and Chorus? \nBring your blanket or a lawn chair and join the Cliff Dwellers Theatre Club on Tuesday\, July 21\, as we get together for an informal picnic-in-the-park. We’ll enjoy hearing selections from beloved Broadway hits such as Ragtime\, Hamilton\, South Pacific\, Hair\, and more! Bring whatever beverage and snacks you’d like. There are some concessions booths in the area\, if you can’t carry anything in. \nThe performance starts at 6:30 p.m.  This is a FREE public performance\, and is one of the Festival’s most popular evenings\, so it will get crowded.  Please try to get there early-ish. We plan on being in the back half of the lawn\, and will plan on trying to stake out an area by 5 p.m.  If you arrive and cannot find the group\, send Rick a text or call at 708-359-0806 and we’ll look for you. \nThink you can make it? Let Rick Frendt know by Tuesday morning\, July 21\, so we can try to save space for people. \n(Rain date: Thursday\, July 23\, 6:30 p.m.)
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/theatre-club-broadway-sings-america-at-grant-park-music-festival/
CATEGORIES:Experience,Music,Party,Past Event,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260728T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260728T210000
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SUMMARY:Chicago Skyscrapers - Lecture and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Discover the evolution of Chicago’s striking urban landscape in this fascinating evening with fellow Cliff Dweller\, Architect\, Professor\, and Author Thomas Leslie\, FAIA.\nPulling details from 2023 book Chicago Skyscrapers 1923-1986\, Thomas Leslie (teacher of building design\, technology\, and history at UIUC) will share stories of the daily struggles\, technical breakthroughs\, and negotiations that evolved through the decades after the Great Depression to change the early\, solid\, earthbound style of Chicago buildings to soaring structures of steel and plate glass. \nCopies of Mr. Leslie’s book will be available for purchase and for signing. \nBar opens: 5:00 p.m.\nBuffet Dinner:  6:00 p.m.\nProgram:  7:00 p.m. \nMembers: $54\nInvited Guests: $64\nProgram only: $20 members and guests \nPlease send in your reservation no later than July 21st.\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org\n3121-922-8080 \n 
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/chicago-skyscrapers-lecture-and-book-signing/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Books - Author presentation,History,Lecture,Past Event
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