Join us for SFOB 2025 Book Club!

This will be a space to dig deeper into the books and topics highlighted throughout the 2025 book festival, and engage in meaningful community dialogue.

You are welcome to attend and participate in the discussion whether or not you have read the book.

This event is FREE & open to all!

Join us for a discussion of Theodore C. Van Alst Jr’s The El, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting.