October 2023 Issue: Chicago Architecture Biennial (Print Edition)

Not Afraid to Be Disliked A conversation with Rachel Shteir about her new biography of Betty Friedan "Rachel Shteir is head of the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism program at the Theatre School at DePaul and the author of three acclaimed books. Her latest, “Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter" is a dynamic biography of the woman who wrote “The Feminine Mystique,” the 1963 bestseller that gave middle-class women a language for their unspoken dissatisfaction and oppression." (Rachel Jamison Webster) Still Crazy After All These Years The Veeck family is a saga of triumph, tragedy and fun. Always fun. "The Veeck family is as Chicago as big shoulders. It was daunting for Mike Veeck to grow up in the shadows of Bill Veeck. His father was a cultural giant who once signed a little person to bat in a baseball game and also marched in Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral procession on his wooden leg. He lost his right leg in a 1946 accident with the Marines but made the best of a lousy situati