Brown Bag Lunch Week
October 27–30
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Brown Bag Lunch Week
Enjoy casual conversation with fellow OLLI members while you enjoy your BYOL, whether it be brown bag or take-out. Drinks and dessert provide by OLLI.
No registration required.
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Our newsletter is emailed out once a week on Sunday and highlights current and upcoming events at OLLI.
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Submissions: Have news to share about your study group or other OLLI activities? We want to hear from you! The submission deadline for articles in the OLLI newsletter is the Monday prior to the issue in which you would like your information to appear. For events that require registration, the deadline is 6 weeks prior. Information inclusion is at the discretion of the Director. Please email olli@northwestern.edu for more information.
OLLI Events
OLLI events are open to all current OLLI members.
Shorefront Legacy Center
November 5, 2025
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Shorefront Legacy Center
Engage with the Shorefront Legacy Center, an archive and institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing the history of Black communities across Chicago’s suburban North Shore. In person, Evanston.
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Why We Hate and What We Can Do About It
November 12, 2025
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Why We Hate and What We Can Do About It
Northwestern Professor of Psychology, Dr. Michael Kraus, will share the biological and psychological underpinnings of hate, how it manifests itself in individuals within groups and in the world at large, and what the individual person can do to overcome their own potential for hate. In-person, Chicago
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Explore Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village Neighborhoods
November 15, 2025
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Explore Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village Neighborhoods
Through the acclaimed Mahogany Tours, celebrated Chicago historian Sherman ‘Dilla’ Thomas will take OLLI members by motorcoach through these culturally rich Chicago neighborhoods.
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