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Saturday, September 6th
3pm CT – Plymouth Court Stage

Mary Schmich is a former Chicago Tribune columnist who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is part of the team that created Division Street Revisited, a 7-episode podcast dreamed up by Melissa Harris and released in 2025. One of her columns, loosely known as Wear Sunscreen, was turned into a popular recording by moviemaker Baz Luhrmann. She also wrote the Brenda Starr comic strip for 25 years. She teaches yoga at Yogaview and the DePaul Theatre School. She lives in Chicago.

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