Are you ready for your summer reading challenge? The Emerging Leaders group would like to invite you to join them for another 'One Book, One BOMA' Book Club!

This time we will be reading The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream by Thomas Dyja, recommended by one of our members!

We will be meeting once in person to discuss the book on Thursday, August 27th at Blackberry Market in Oak Brook at 8:30am.

This event is free for all BOMA Members and we would love for you to sign up! We want this Book Club to be a safe and inclusive space for all of our members. The Book Club offers colleagues the chance to connect with one another in meaningful ways and creates a space to learn through storytelling to deepen our understanding of others and the world around us. 

Discussion questions will be sent out prior to our meeting in August!

Thomas Dyja's book, The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream can be purchased on Amazon,Bookshop.org or borrowed at your local library. Read more about it below!

Winner of the Chicago Tribune‘s 2013 Heartland Prize.

A critically acclaimed history of Chicago at mid-century, featuring many of the incredible personalities that shaped American culture

Before air travel overtook trains, nearly every coast-to-coast journey included a stop in Chicago, and this flow of people and commodities made it the crucible for American culture and innovation. In luminous prose, Chicago native Thomas Dyja re-creates the story of the city in its postwar prime and explains its profound impact on modern America—from Chess Records to Playboy, McDonald’s to the University of Chicago. Populated with an incredible cast of characters, including Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Sun Ra, Simone de Beauvoir, Nelson Algren, Gwendolyn Brooks, Studs Turkel, and Mayor Richard J. Daley, The Third Coast recalls the prominence of the Windy City in all its grandeur.