Kenan Heise
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Kenan Joseph Heise is the author of many books and articles and is currently a columnist with the Chicago Observer.[1]
All books written
- The Illinois Story : The State's History and Competitive Edge Today with David M. Young and William Recktenwald (2002)
- Challenging the Daley Machine : A Chicago Alderman's Memoir with Leon M. Despres (2005)
- Chicago Afternoons with Leon (2007)
- Chicago November 4th 2008 : And Other Poems of Surprise (2008)
- Chicago Originals with Ed Baumann (1995)
- Chicago the Beautiful : A City's Rebirth, in Photographs and Prose (2001)
- Chicago's Parks : A Photographic History, Illinois (Images of America Series) with John Graf (Heise wrote the foreword) (2000)
- Hands on Chicago : Getting Hold of the City with Mark Frazel (1987)
- The Sin of Obedience (2004)
- The Witch of Ferndale : And More Aunt Ella Stories (2002)
- Alphonse : A One Man Play in the Words of Al Capone (with a Chronology of His Life) (1989)
- Aunt Ella Stories with Jeremy Blatchley (Illustrator) and David Mamet (Introduction) (1985)
- Chaos, Creativity, and Culture : An Anthology of Chicago in the Twentieth Century (1998)
- Chicago Originals : A Cast of the City's Colorful Characters with Ed Baumann (1990)
- Chicago : Center for Enterprise with Michael Edgerton (1982)
- Chicagoization of America : 1893-1917 with Bill Granger (Designed by) (1989)
- Clarence Darrow in Hell : A Play with Dan Heise (1992)
- If Christ Came to Chicago! : A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer with W. T. Stead, William T. Stead (1990)
- The Illinois Story : The State's History and Competitive Edge Today with David M. Young and William Recktenwald (2002)
- Is There Only One Chicago? (1973)
- Our Dinosaurs Are Dying : New American Poems (1994)
- Resurrection Mary : A Ghost Story (1990)
- Tales from an Urban Wilderness with Scott Holingue (1994)
- The Witch of Ferndale : And More Aunt Ella Stories]] (2002)[2]
Paul Robeson 100th Birthday Committee
In 1998 Kenan Heise was listed as a volunteer and intern of Paul Robeson 100th Birthday Committee.[3]
Honoring Frank Wilkinson
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights organized a "Celebration of the The Dynamic Life of Frank Wilkinson (1914-2006)" on Sunday October 29, 2006. Wilkinson had been a leader of the Communist Party USA, the New American Movement and Democratic Socialists of America[4].
Honoring Committee members included Carol Heise and Kenan Heise.