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Garbage Puppet by the Anatomy Collective for Chicago Underground Library Orphan Works

Garbage Puppet by the Anatomy Collective for the CUL Orphan Works Performance Series, 2007. Photo by Eric Bartholomew.

The Chicago Underground Library is a location-specific archive of independent and small press media. We are always seeking books, magazines, zines, journals, broadsides, newspapers, and art books of all types, genres, and print runs as long as they were produced outside of mass media outlets. We accept everything from the area (ever), regardless of perceived quality or importance in order to create a detailed index from which connections among the publications will emerge.

Keeping records of everyone who contributed to a work, as well as keywording every subject, allows us to map the evolution (historically and contemporaneously) of Chicago’s communities and movements and encourage the production of new media by providing context, inspiration, and programming designed to support collaboration. Currently focusing on print, the CUL intends to expand into audio, video, performance documentation, and ephemera as our infrastructure permits.

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    2001 2003 2004 After Hours: A Journal of Chicago Writing and Art Albert DeGenova Anarchism Arsenal: a Magazine of Anarchist Strategy and Culture Art Carlos Fernandez Charles Rossiter Cherie Caswell Dost Constance Vogel Culture David Hernandez E. Donald Two-Rivers Education Essay Fiction Greg Kuepfer Hagen W. Dost Helen Degen Cohen J.D. Smith Jared Smith Joseph M. Giordano Judith Valente Kristy Bowen Larry Janowski Lynn Fitzgerald Martha Modena Vertreace Mary Blinn Maureen Tolman Flannery Mike Poizone Music Nina Corwin P. Hertel Personal Philosophy Poetry Police Politics Robert Klein Engler Suzanne Cosgrove Tony Doyle Vic Speedwell Whitney Scott