One Hot Day in Chicago
Author
Robert Klein Engler
Robert Klein Engler was born in Chicago. He worked many years as a department chairman and as a faculty union leader at the City Colleges of Chicago until he was ethnically cleansed and banned by the Chancellor in May, 1997. His poems and stories have appeared in Borderlands, Hyphen, Christopher Street, The James White Review, American Letters and Commentary, Kansas Quarterly, and many other magazines and journals. He was the recipient of Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards for his poem 'Flower Festival at Genzano', which appeared in Whetstone and 'Three Poems for Kabbalah', which appeared in Fish Stories, II.
Synopsis
When an all Latino administration arrives on the campus of
Madison College Professor Cunningham has to make a series of choices. He soon
realizes that he and others are about to be ethnically cleansed from campus
because they are white. His being gay and having a young lover doesn't help
matters. Eventually, Cunningham makes a choice that has tragic results. View Extract.
Cast
7 male, 1 female
Duration
120 mins
Contact
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901 S. Plymouth
Chicago
Il 60605
USA