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May 23, 2022

The Enduring Community of Chicago Beer

In search of the pure food beer (Courtesy of June Sawyers.)

Scottish by birth and a Chicagoan by heart, June Sawyers has written more than 25 books.

Her prolific catalog includes “Praying With Celtic Saints, Prophets, Martyrs, and Poets,”  “Dreams of Elsewhere: Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson” and a couple of my favorites, “Bob Dylan: New York” and “Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader.” She teaches at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

I’ve known Sawyers for many years.

I did not peg her as a beer person.

But she has just released “Chicago Beer (A History of [...]

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