Toya Wolfe and her novel “Last Summer on State Street” have won the second annual Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award.

What would become the annual Gay Pride Parade began in Bughouse Square in June 1970, as a march of about 20 people. “If we lose our history,” Chichester says, “we lose ourselves.” ...

Since 1986 the Newberry has organized the Bughouse Square Debates event to coincide with the Newberry Book Fair, a four-day sale known for its mix of used books, movies, and records.

But in 1986, the Newberry, an independent research library which happens to have a large archive of material from the Dil Pickle Club and Bughouse Square, decided to revive the debates.