Laura Washington Interviews Gregory Pratt on Lori Lightfoot’s Mayoralty
Laura Washington Interviews Gregory Pratt on Lori Lightfoot's Mayoralty Editor's Note: On April 5, 2024, The Cliff Dwellers its latest presentation of "Journalism: Today's Story." In the event, Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and political commentator [...]
Aristotle, Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren & Bill Bowe on Happiness
Aristotle, Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren, & Bill Bowe on Happiness Editor's Note: Recently at The Cliff Dwellers family, friends, and a number of Club members helped me celebrate the publication on Amazon of my memoir Riots [...]
The Riots & Rockets Book Launch At The Cliff Dwellers
On March 22, 2024, family and friends, and a host of Members of The Cliff Dwellers, gathered at the Club to celebrate the publication on Amazon of Riots & Rockets, William J. Bowe's memoir of his Army days during the riotous 1960s and '70s, Chicago politics in the 1970s, and his lawyering life dealing with collectors' plates and foundations, the newswire service United Press International, and Encyclopaedia Britannica in the Digital Age.
Annals of a Bygone Era
Annals of a Bygone Era Bill Bowe, retired Executive Vice President of Encyclopaedia Britannica and a former Club President, gave a short talk about the history of The Cliff Dwellers at the Club's 117th Annual Meeting of [...]
Tony Bowe Interviews Bill Bowe on Bill Bowe
Tony Bowe Interviews Bill Bowe on Bill Bowe In this follow on to his earlier interview of Bill regarding his grandparents, Gus and Julia Bowe, Tony Bowe interviews Bill about his early years, family [...]
Tony Bowe Asks Bill Bowe about His Career as a General Counsel
Becoming a General Counsel Editor's Note: In this last of the series of interviews by my cousin Tony Bowe, he asked me how and when I shifted my career as a lawyer from private practice to serving in successive [...]
Mary Gwinn Bowe and The 1960 Kennedy Presidential Campaign
Editor's Note: In 1960, John F. Kennedy was running for President. After a September campaign event in our apartment living room with Ethel and Joan Kennedy, the wives of his JFK's brothers Robert and Edward Kennedy, my mother joins the soon-to-be-elected President at an event in his Chicago campaign office. Also attending are then Mayor Richard J. Daley, and later Mayor Jane Byrne.
1120 and the Bowe, Casey, Lynch, Heffron, Parish, Skura & Riboud Families
1120 and the Bowe, Casey, Lynch, Heffron, Parish, Skura & Riboud Families Tony Bowe asks Bill Bowe to explain why the two Bowe family apartments at the corner of Elm Street and Lake Shore Drive figured so much [...]
Mark Hersch – Time After Time
Mark Hersch - Time After Time Mark Hersch is know for taking rare, historic photographs of Chicago and other cities and merging them with photographs he takes from the exact same vantage point in the present day. The [...]
