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Adam Langer

Adam Langer

Adam Langer (born 1967) is an American author best known for his novel Crossing California, which was published in 2004.


Biography

Langer grew up in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on Chicago, where he attended Boone Elementary School. He attended Evanston Township High School from 1980-1984 and graduated from Vassar College in 1988. Returning to Chicago, he worked for a little over a decade as an editor, nonfiction author, playwright, theater director, and film producer. In 2000 he won a fellowship to Columbia University’s National Arts Journalism Program and remained in New York as a senior editor of Book Magazine until it folded in 2003. He is now a full-time writer with a weekly column in The Book Standard.

He is married to Beate Sissenich, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University-Bloomington. Their daughter Nora Langer Sissenich was born on June 9, 2005.


Works

Novels

Crossing California (2004)

The Washington Story (2005)

Ellington Boulevard (2008)


As contributor

The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2000 (2000)

The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2000 (2000)

The Encyclopedia of Exes (2005)

Chicago Noir (2005)

Before: The Big Book of Pregnancy and Parenting (2006)



Plays

What I Need Is A Good Bonk On The Head (1989)

Backstage Pass (1990)

In The Shadow of A Smile (1991)

Under The Gods (1992)

The Blank Page (1995)

Dark Matter (1996)

Crime in The City (1997)

Solo Album, Volume #1: Rock ‘n’ Roll Women (1997)

Film Flam (1997)

Three Glasses of Sherry (1998)

The Critics (1999)

Coaster (2000)

What Remains Forgotten (2001)

214 Minutes (2002)

Suramo (2002)



Other

The Madness of Art (1996)



External links

Adam Langer's Home Page

Adam Langer Biography at Literary Agency

Stuart Nagel

Stuart Nagel

Stuart S. Nagel (1934–2001) was Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Born in West Rogers Park, Chicago, he attended Senn High School and Central YMCA High School at his hometown. Later he completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at Northwestern University, receiving a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1961.

Well-known by having coined the terms "super-optimizing" and "win-win analysis", he advanced the boundaries of policy studies.After his unexpected death on November 18, 2001, at the age of 67, the Policy Studies Journal published, in 2003, a series of articles about Mr. Nagel's personal and academic life, entitled Symposium in Honor of Stuart S. Nagel.

On September 13, 2007 Professor Emeritus Robert Weissberg wrote in an article entitled The Hidden Impact Of Political Correctness that Stuart committed suicide partially because of an anonymous accusation of racism and workplace violence that resulted in an internal investigation and two federal trials.

West Ridge, Chicago

West Ridge, Chicago

West Ridge or West Rogers Park is one of 77 well-defined Chicago, Illinois community areas. It is a middle to upper middle class neighborhood located on the far north side of Chicago. It is located in the 50th Ward. It is bordered on the north by Howard Street, on the east by Ridge Boulevard, Western Avenue, and Ravenswood Avenue, the south by Bryn Mawr Avenue and Peterson Avenue, and on the west by Kedzie Avenue and the North Shore channel of the Chicago River. At one time joined with neighboring Rogers Park, it separated in the 1890's over a conflict concerning park districts (known as the Cabbage War.)

Today West Ridge is one of Chicago's better off communities, filled with thriving multi-ethnic culture lining Devon Avenue, historic mansions lining Ridge and Lunt Avenues, cultural institutions such as St. Scholastica Acadaemy and one of the highest per capita incomes on the Northside of Chicago. It is represented in City Council by Alderman Bernard Stone.
It is home to the Midwest's largest Hasidic community, as well as other Jewish, Irish-American, German-American, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Assyrian, and Korean immigrant communities.



Golden Ghetto

Golden Ghetto is an informal name for a neighborhood north and south of Devon Avenue on the North Side of Chicago stretching from about 2200 West to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal at about 3200 West.

The Golden Ghetto is bounded on the north by Warren Park and Pratt Avenue and on the south by Peterson Avenue. It acquired its name from the thriving Jewish community there from about 1930 to the mid-1970s. That community began to drift into the suburbs in the 1960s, and the neighborhood began to be home to South Asians and Russian Jews from about that time.
The heyday of the area is the topic of Adam Langer's Crossing California, told from the perspective of the second-generation residents during their middle school and teenage years.


Schools

• ABC Academy
  

• Bethesda Evangelical Lutheran School
  

• Bnos Rabbeinu High School
  

• Cheder Lubavitch Girls High School
  

• Clinton Elementary School
  

• Daniel Boone Elementary School
  

• Stephen Decatur Classical School
  

• George Armstrong Elementary School
  

• Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School
  

• Ida Crown Jewish Academy
  

• Jamieson Elementary School
  

• Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov High School
  

• Keshet High School
  

• Mather High School
  

• NAES College
  

• Philip Rogers Elementary School
  

• St. Hilary Elementary School
  

• St. Margaret Mary School
  

• St. Philips Evangelical Lutheran School
  

• St. Scholastica Academy
  

• Stone Elementary Academy
  

• Tzemach Tzedek Elementary School
  

• Vicytor C. Neumann School
  

• Yeshiva Migdal Torah School
  

• Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel-Veitzn
  

External links

Official City of Chicago West Ridge Community Map

Chicago Park District: Indian Boundary Park

Lakeside Community Development Corporation

Photographs of Devon Avenue by Jordan Bettis