Chicago Humanities Fest: Jonathan Blitzer: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here – The Making of a Crisis on the Border

The UIC Institute for the Humanities is happy to partner with the Chicago Humanities Fest to provide UIC faculty and students access to free ticket codes for Chicago Humanities Fest Lakeview Day's program Jonathan Bliter: Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here-The making of a crisis on the border with UIC's Adam Goodman.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border seeking safety and prosperity. Weaving together the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict with those of American activists, government officials, and politicians, best-selling author, and New Yorker writer Jonathan Blitzer illuminates the country’s immigration crisis. Join us as Blitzer dives into this vital and remarkable story, as told in his newest book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, that has shaped the nation’s politics and culture — and will almost certainly determine its future.

Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the bestselling author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. He has won a National Award for Education Reporting as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award, and was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. He lives with his family in New York City.

Adam Goodman is author of the award-winning book The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants. He is a member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation History Advisory Committee, and an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies and history at the University of Illinois Chicago.

UIC faculty and students can access free tickets to the event with the following instructions:
1. Head over to the event website.
2. Select “Student & Teacher” from the dropdown.
3. Select your ticket quantity. (up to 2 tickets)
4. Click “Add to Cart.”
5. Click “Go to Cart” to checkout.
6. Click “Enter Promo Code.”
7. Type UICCH25 in the box provided.
8. Click the arrow to apply the promo code and update your total.
9. Click “Checkout” to proceed with your discounted tickets.

UIC faculty and students may also access up to 2 free tickets to any other Spring 2025 CHF programming using the same instructions as above. Please note that the passes do not apply to certain programs, such as book bundles.

Email huminst@uic.edu if you encounter any issues with the registration process.